I'm having the same problem, so I second Cie's request: any suggestion? S.

I suggest you UV map it if you have not and use the box mapping and then it should work great....let me know if you some help. Sharen

Never thought to UV map it. Would you happen to have the link to the free UV mapper? Thanks. Cie

Never mind Sharon I found the UVmapper but it is only for .obj files and the chair is a 3ds file. Any other suggestions?

can you convert it? If not I can, just email it to me, I will send it right back to you....really doesn't take that long, but if you think it isn't that important that is up to you. Sharen :-)

Thanks so much Sharen. What's your e-mail addy? Cie

SC@sams3d.com.....I will get it right back to you? Sharen

Thanks Sharen, on its way. :D Cie

mapping the texture as "object cubic" usually works for me

Download either wings3d ( http://www.wings3d.com ) or Anim8tor ( http://www.anim8or.com ). Both of these FREE modelers allow easy convertion between 3ds and obj file formats. wings seems the best as anim8or somethings places weird extra polygons where i dont need them. Have fun Zanny

Claymor - tried object cube and it didn't work either. Actually tried each type of placement in order to find one that worked. Only Random which wasn't what I wanted. Zanny - I'll go take a look. Thanks everybody for the suggestions and help. Cie

Trouble, You can convert the chair to obj, by exporting it out of Bryce ( open the edit menu then ctrl + D key while menu is open. )

Stephen Ray - Tried that. Selected the chair and the export option was greyed out so I couldn't pick it. Thought it was rather strange but how can you argue with Bryce? Cie

Cie, it is in your box all ready for you...Sharen

Aye, if you can't do it in UVMapper, maybe try making a duplicate of the chair, and boolean off the top section on the first chair, with a neg. cube or something. Then, on the second chair, alter the texture to fit the image! It woudl take a lot less time, but of course it might only work from this particular camera angle.

If mapping doesn't work I usually do the boolean trcik too...cut the thing in half and map each piece seperately.

No what Stephen meant was if you imported the file as 3ds then what you need to do is click on the E in the menu next to the object in your working window then when the Smooth object window is showing you need to ctrl+D and save as an Object file so then you will be able to bring into UV mapper and map it...Also does these Converters convert from Quake,Unreal,Mds? to objects?

those are just free modellers, which can (naturally) import+export. I'm guessing you want to export objects to a Quake or Unreal native 3d object format? There may or may not be something on the internet for that. Google's your best bet.

Unreal has a lot more power, when it comes to objects, than practically anything else in the industry. It actually comes with all of the tools you'd need to do such a thing. Maya, Upaint, UnrealEd, blah blah...

hmm..... i think those games are slowly destroying my brain....

another thing to add to the bryce 6 wishlist... being able to export uv maps(even for metaballs).....

Anything 4 sided, I suggest "Object Cubic", (as Claymor said) and then, if it still looks strange, try tweaking the scale. (which is that first XYZ control you see in the "Edit Texture" box, which reads XYZ=25%) Something as small as a chair seat should look correct anywhere from -2% to +10%. It depends on the size of your original texture of course, but that might serve as rough guide. AS

Agent Smith you da man...

Wow, you guys are so great!! Thanks for all the suggestions and helps. I've learned something new with the Ctrl-D in the smoothing window and why I've always had a problem with picture mats on objects. Thanks again! :D Cie