I get the same thing all of the time...I dont care..Soon I will Master their Programs Then I will use what I create in THEIR Programs and still Render My Stills in Bryce...Soon I will be able to do all of this in the NEW Bryce...Animate,Lowpoly,High Poly...Then I can say...So They said what we do in Bryce doesnt Transfer Over to the Higher 3D Programs...Ha...Total BS...Shader Tweaking is almost like using The Texture Editor...And How we apply Maps in Bryce is very similar to Max's we use basically Slots and we can Tweak the UV Map...And Metaballin and Boolean would be the same except for the Export Options... Bottom line dont take it tooo heart...I have Pics all over and am friends who use The other Programs and Yes they are Making Money and I am not BUT my Stills look Way better then theirs but their animations blow mine away...I hope to Remedy that soon... AND... They can kiss the arse of a Hog waller Pig and may a Billion Facets Infect their renders....