I have one major flaw I see with my pics. No background! I have tried several ways to add a flat background pic in poser or merge as layers in PSP7, with various degrees of success. However I feel I'll never really be happy until I can render my poser models in bryce. Note I have Bryce 3D, not Bryce 4. My question is do I need to upgrade? Here's the problem. I have been trying to import the attached models into bryce. It consist of a wolf, female, hair, top leather, bottom leather and spear; in all 7 items. No matter how I save the file and import into Bryce 3D I have 130 un-named meshes to try and match my textures to. It's all but impossible. I've tried importing just one item at a time, but as I feared they import over out of proportion to one another. If I had Bryce 4 will the mesh names actually carry over so I can sort them? I kinda wanted to know before I go out and buy Bryce 4 just for this. Thanks

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You can try using grouper (a utility program to transfer .obj's into bryce) I don't know how it will work with bryce 3D.

Hi LeBurns A few days ago I downloaded a plugin here called "Grouper11". Ive not tried it at yet but it should help (not sure about Bryce 3D). But when all goes well, there is an other vermouth drop (<-german proverb), "the long rendertime :-(". I wish you much luck and patience with your wolfrider. I'm curious about the result. Bye Harie.

1)Bryce 4 does read the figure names properly. There is still some work to be done when using Bryce 4, but really it does make life a bit easier. Also you should get an upgrade price rather than having to pay the full cost. 2) But Bryce 3 is still quite usable even with very complex scenes. (I've done five figures, all with clothes and props, in a setting with several thousand objects, without too much difficulty.) Here are some tips: A - Bryce always imports an .obj so that the largest dimension is 40.96. In Poser, create a prop that is a vertical stick bigger than anything else. Include it in all your exports. As soon as you import into Bryce, delete the stick. But all your imports will be correctly scaled! Note: you need to do this in Bryce 4 as well, so get into the habit. B - If you do this, you can open a new Bryce document for each figure while you texture them, and then copy and paste them all into your final scene. C - Alternatively, don't forget solo mode. It can be a life-saver. 3) Make sure you have Bryce 3.1 and not 3.0. Doing this in 3.0 is a nightmare because the selection tool is buggy.

Wow, thanks for all the help!