Mind-Boggling (fantasy-laden) Realism I'm another user that had a reflex distaste of what appeared to be Bryce 5.5's press ganging of DAZ Studio. It very nearly put me off upgrading to Bryce 5.5. I have to be very careful about what I spend... but I couldn't have been more wrong here. My prior experience of DAZ Studio dates back to early alpha days, and suffice it to say that the program did not survive for very long on my PC. I spent a lot of time reading threads both here and at DAZ, before deciding if I should take the plunge again with Bryce. I'd read that the Bryce installer needs DAZ Studio 0.9.20.5 (i.e. the very latest version) so I also decided to download that in advance as well (excellent content included btw). Although I already had this latest version on my system, the Bryce installer still wanted me to uninstall it - which I initially declined to allow it to do. However, I too subsequently discovered problems (when I launched DAZ Studio from Bryce) with it not having the required plug-ins to import some Poser content. Having read comments by rbtwhiz (in the DAZ Bryce forum topic - "Bryce 5.5 without D/S") I decided to re-install Bryce and this time allow it to 'update' DAZ Studio as well... and So far, my problems with importing Poser content now all appear to be fixed. Early days I admit - but at the time of writing I make no apologies for saying that I'm absolutely astounded at the whole new world of exploration that my new software is permitting me. Maybe it's a lack of confidence, but I've always considered myself to have little innate artistic talent. Already I'm impressed with my efforts at exploiting this new integration (after just a few minutes). There appears to be seamless integration twixt Bryce 5.5 and DAZ Studio, and so far it's proving to be little further effort for me to point DAZ Studio towards my Poser Runtime libraries, and directly use the content from there as well. I will not deny that I love Poser 6, but as someone who has in the past refused to give DAZ Studio a fair chance, I now find myself having to eat slices of humble pie. Since my early ventures, DAZ Studio appears to have advanced by leaps and bounds. The very easy Poser-Studio-Bryce routing that I'm now becoming acquainted with is (for me) opening doors to worlds that I had only hitherto dreamt of. I admit to being a bit slow on the learning curve when I initially purchased Bryce 5. However, after what I've read in the forums and am now am beginning to witness, I just had to fully open this window of opportunity with my order for the Bryce Tutorial DVD. I hope my bank manager understands, and time will tell if I have chosen wisely. Right now, I'm having a very lot of fun!