I wonder if anyone can help here. I have just purchased Deluxe Trees, which are in poser format, but they are .obj which I can import into Bryce. 
How can I import them with the original textures. If I use mats from Bryce the leaves are just square which is no good for closeup scenes. 

Can anyone help here?

Can you load them into Daz Studio?then just go into Bryce through DS.

I've just thought which version of Bryce do you use?If Bryce 5 just export from Poser and then import through File>Import in Bryce.The first instructions refer to Bryce 5.5 and Bryce 6.

I’m not familiar with that package but usually with objects we must provide an opacity map to the material lab together with the 2D texture and make sure Material Options are turned to “Blend Transparency”. On the opacity map the leaves are all white while the transparent parts are in black so if the package doesn’t provide opacity maps then you must create your own. This can be done in an editing program.

Quest

Aha, that easy eh LOL. Thanks Quest for going to the trouble of a graphic tutorial and Incognitas for your suggestions. :)

I don’t understand your answer, are you saying that you have resolved your question based on our feedback or is it nonplus sarcasm? 

Quest

Huh?????

I was actually thanking you for taking the time to make your reply easy for me to understand using an image of the materials lab.

LOL…I do understand that you were thanking us and you’re most welcomed Dhama. The trouble with online posting is that it is deprived of speech inflections and emotions and one reads into it things that may or may not be there.

 

I didn’t know if I should take your response at face value, as is, or if you were being facetious.

 

For instance, my use of the expression; “nonplus sarcasm” is not at all meant to be defamatory. Nonplus=befuddled, puzzled, mystify, baffled, bewildered sarcasm as in the expressions; “duh”; “yeah right”; and the many other expressions that abound. I therefore wondered if I should take your expression; “Aha, that easy eh LOL.” in that same light. In which case you’re saying that it isn’t easy and I would have gone further in trying to explain the process so as to make it clearer for you if it would at all help.

 

On the other hand you could have been saying that indeed it is easy and you were already aware of the process and I was being debasing towards you in my reply. In which case I would be offering my apologies. From another perspective it could have meant…LOL, now I’m being facetious.

 

I just wanted to know if you needed further clarification? LOL…ay vay!

 

Quest

LOL, you're right about online posting, mostly in my experience people take things the wrong way, and if theres is any possibility of a double meaning, the negative usually prevails. :D

I was saying 'that easy eh' because quite simply I should have known better. Looking at the process made me realise that it was a very simple process. :D
Have to give myself a slap on the wrist though, I must admit in all the years i've used Bryce, i've never really delved into the materails lab to much extent.... usually I just change things till it looks right, but I haven't a clue how I got there LOL!

Thanks for the clarifictaion on asking if I needed clarification on the original question. thanks mate. :)

EDIT: If you know of any good tutorials specifically for the materials lab, I would be very grateful.

Dhama, I’ll direct you to two. First is a quicky impromptu tut I drew up for FranOnTheEdge in December of 2005 and it can be found here:

 Renderosity Archives

The second is an all time classic that can always be found in the Brycetech web site here:

 
BryceTech

 

Under the Advanced section “Material Lab”

I hope these help.

Quest

As an addendum and offered as inspiration these are examples of some work I’ve recently been doing using Bryce’s Material Lab on opacity and they are not to be considered finished works…just experiments. I call them Guilded SOW's...LOL. They don't have to be spheres eigther!

Quest

Wow thanks Quest, they will be invaluable. :)

Love the guilded sow's, what a great idea.

dharma: You'll have to excuse Quest. He had a traumatic experiance with a New York Court recently..............;-) :lol:

He-he-he...Yeah Bryster but I won! ;^)...wise ass!...LOL

Hey **dhama,

**That tut Quest did for me on materials using A+B+C+D - is just excellent.

Actually Quest, if you have the time and could possibly go into it in more detail (lots of pics and lots of different examples) - it's just exactly the sort of thing we really need in the tuts section - unless you've already got it there...

Especially where you say it's very powerful and you can do lots with it... like what?