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Hi, first post. I've just started making a bigger effort with my Poser creations. I currently use Poser 6 and export as Wavefront and then import into Bryce 5. I turn off the sun and use a light arc to light the scene. Anyway, I've just started wondering what better ways there are to do my renders, or even a better way in Bryce? I'm not rolling in it, nore of a budget hobbyist, although I've just ordered Poser 7 and hope to get V4. Also I downloaded Blender free and could'nt understand a word of it. Well, hope this all makes sense, and someone can point me in the right direction for better results.

My advice as a fellow Mac user .......GET RID OF BRYCE!!! Scrape together $90 USD and get Vue easel

For me bryce "died" around year 2 of the Bill Clinton Presidency

Vue easel will just open your poser .pz3 outright and and save it as a native vue scene

and its preset "atmospheres" and materials make bryce look like the vestgial
anachronistic  tinker toy that it is.
and it renders way faster.

Just my opinion

here is my latest vue render with a poser figure

Good luck 

Hi, I'm not sure exactly what your question is , do you want better renders in Bryce or do you want to be doing a well lit good render in Poser itself ? -If it's rendering in Bryce you will have a better chance of help if you post this in the Bryce forum. -also there are a number of Poser/Mac users in the Macintosh forum if your questions have more to do with Poser issues on a mac - if its a lighting/rendering in Poser issue there are lots of good tuts around and being Mac or Windows makes no big difference. These links are a few lighting/rendering tutes: http://www.e-frontier.com/article/archive/329/ http://www.perpetualvisions.com/renderosity/tut-p6light/p6lighting.htm http://www.video-tutes.com/packages/PoserDesign1.php Google "lighting in Poser" or "rendering in Poser" and you will get useful results. Also two sites I often find really good tutes are 3DCommune and RDNA ( incase you are not aware of them ). Hope this helps.

I agree with wolf359 here. Vue blows away Bryce big time ! I've read somewhere that Poser 7 has a better render engine than Poser 6, but this i can't say for myself yet because i still use Poser 6. It's been quit a long time since i used Bryce, but i do remember that you can choose the quality in Bryce's render settings however, Bryce is waaaaaaaaaaay slow ! :sleep: Yes it will cost a bit but Vue is really worth the money

FarawayPictures said :

Quote - I'm not rolling in it, nore of a budget hobbyist, although I've just ordered Poser 7 and hope to get V4.

I use Vue (6Inf) , great Poser renders though I don't use it for that personally..... but as the original poster mentions "budget" , well, Vue starts $79 for Easel and goes up to $695 for 6Inf. Guess it depends on ones definition of 'budget' ; )

Vue also has higher requirements (I know I don't meet them).

Vue will import pz3s. Vue will import dynamic cloth and hair. Vue 6 will read Poser 5+ shaders. I am waiting for the final release of Vue 6 for Esprit. It's not out yet. bB

one further "yes" vote on posing in poser, then rendering in a renderer. I find it's a pain in the butt trying to tweak all those parameters for all the materials and objects in poser. it seems like settings for objects in the pose room over-ride render settings sometimes. it's so much easier just rendering it in carrara.

WOW, Thankyou so much for the help. I think you've sold me on Vue, It's within my budget, just have to save a bit. Many many thanks for the help, and that Render, Wolf is fantastic.