I rendered a background in Bryce - results great. Used background in Poser with 2 eagle poses. The rendered background looks terrible. I placed it into PageMaker for the front cover of something I'm having printed and now the landscape is grainy - birds ok. I exported the Eagle (using wavefront object) into Bryce. Can't rotate the bird around. Got the shawdow on bird - don't want it. How do I get the picture to look like the one in Poser while rendering in Bryce?

The quick and diry answer is post production. Use photoshop or some other graphics program that allows layers. Plop the bryce image in one layer. THe birds in another. Mask out the the area around the birds to get the landscape to show up.

Hmmm, I wonder why you can't rotate the eagle in Bryce? Try to disable shadows from the materials editor,for the eagle. Hawkfyr

I used PhotoStyler from Aldus to put the Eagles on the rendered bmp file in Bryce. It works okay now. Thanks

I think you can do this: 1- Render the background in Bryce and save the image. 2- Import the eagles in Bryce with the same background, render it and save the image, then do a "Mask render of the eagles" and save the image.(I dont understand why you cant rotate tha eagles in Bryce) 3- In photoshop load the bacground, then load the eagles, and then load the mask image, use the mask image for "mask" the eagles, then select the eagles layer and invert the mask, hit delete and the backgroung of the eagles layer will dissapear, I think thats all. If you dont understand is because my poor english.

I think Im stupid, I did not realize that you did not have Photoshop, but if PhotoStyler uses layers is the same, sorry!

I have Photoshop. I don't understand how to import the eagles into Bryce. I saved them as an "obj" file then imported the obj file.

kirby, try saving the render of the background at twice the size you want it in poser, then when you import it into poser, change the window size down to where you want it. That should compress it without loss. I think

I think Bonestructure has it right. I had this problem in Poser in the past. I found that setting its size in poser to same size the image was rendered at worked fine. Any larger and poser is unable to interpolate so the image gets grainy. So just render in Bryce at 2X the size needed in Poser and pay attention to the size in Poser! I think a lot of people have this problem-I discovered the fix by playing around-I dont think its in the manual... Eric