Poser exports to Bryce quite well if you know the tricks and you're prepared to spend some time on it. There are some things you really need to know to decide on your Poser version though. The new Poser 5 procedural materials don't export to Bryce (and most people would say those are 80% of the reason to have P5, so if you mostly want to render in Bryce, you just lost a lot of incentive to get P5). The new P5 dynamic hair doesn't export to Bryce either, though I can see possible ways of doing it. However, I'm not aware of anybody having built a tool to do it as yet. The new P5 dynamic cloth does export to Bryce, but only for still pictures. (Are you planning on animations or mostly stills?) Dynamic cloth is great for flowing robes, cloaks etc. If you don't plan on using that sort of clothing, you don't need it. The P5 face room allows you to alter faces of the default P5 humans. Those can go to Bryce easily. Some people think the face room is cool, some think it's a not very useful toy. Most Poser users buy Vicki and Mike from DAZ as their primary human models and the face room doesn't work for them, just for the P5 humans. Moving stuff from Poser to Bryce is a matter of exporting an obj format model from your scene and importing it to Bryce. Some Bryce users use free tools like MeTaL fixer to get Bryce to import Poser's 2D texture jpgs and keep materials intact (as I said, that doesn't work for the P5 procedural textures). Other Bryce users say they want Bryce materials rather than Poser ones, so they just import the obj without materials and do all of the materials in Bryce. Curious Labs has so far been very non-commital on whether there will be a specific Bryce plug-in for Poser 5. They haven't ruled it out, but I wouldn't hold your breath. I don't expect to see one ever. You might look at Poser Artist (the new name for Poser 4), which really has just as much to offer a Bryce user as Pro Pack does but at a lower price. Also, if you hang on until December you'll be able to get DAZ Studio for free. Nobody knows too much about the exact features of DAZ studio yet, but provided it can export obj format, it should be able to offer you just as much as Poser in terms of preparing things for Bryce. The catch is that DAZ studio ships with no included models, so you would have to buy your human and animal models separately, but all of the best ones are sold separately anyhow and many Poser users wind up buying them rather than using the models that are provided with Poser.

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