Well, I've been offline for a bit over a week now.  My Internet PC got corrupted, the registry just mangled.  None of my recover techniques worked, even an in-place install failed.  Long story short and a bit of formatting I'm back up and running, and now comes the slow process of putting everything back together.

Now about the Bryce and Work Project which is probably why you opened this thread. :)

I want to make a Power Point presentation depicting the Map of Canada... you might already guess where this is going.

I want to make all the Provinces come onto the screen in seperate pieces kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.

Here is what i have so far.

I found an outline of Canada and all of its provinces and used photoshop to chop them out and export them as Grayscale Bitmap.

I than imported each province into Bryce and used the Terrain editor....

So far I'm having sizing issues and aligning issues.  Some of the provinces are being shrunk to the limitation of the Terrain Boundry or something and so the pieces that should be larger are not.

I don't think you can do it in that way - you have to have the whole map in at the same time - to avoid scaling and allignment issues - and i dont think you can do that in Bryce - you need to use a 3D modelling program which can "cut" and "Loft" your map then export each "chop" as a seperate waterfront or 3DS object but in one file - both waterfront and 3ds files can contain more than one object/mesh  - i think C4D and 3DMAX is able to do these things - maybe a guru here at r'osity knows how to  do that in one of the forementioned proggy's

Regards
Arne

So maybe I should use Bryce to create a 3D Vesion of the Map and than export it and use something else to chop it up.

Or you can , forgive me for saying this, you can use Flash to create the map, if you have Flash...

I want to give the map a 3D Look, I dont know how to use flash and not interested in buying/installing another piece of software.

I'm going to try and create it in Bryce and somehow chop it up elsewhere.

Analog. 
This is do-able. You say you have the outline to Canada and all it's provinces in Photoshop, well, just make a new layer and create a solid black box that is just bigger than Canada and place this below the outline layer as a base.
Next, make another layer and onto this paint in one of the provinces in white. Delete the outline layer, merge the black background and the province layer and export.
In Bryce create a terrain, go into the terrain editor, click new and load first photoshop image, use the clipper bracket so you are left with the province and return to scene, then, click the "A" attributes box and resize this the same as the exported photoshop image, if it's too large just reduce it down, keeping the same ratio.
Go back to photoshop and click the back button until the grid returns and repeat for each province.
In Bryce, duplicate (ctrl + d) the first terrain, go into the editor click new and load the next image.
Each province should then fall exactly into place and be the correct size!

johnyf: Awesome... I'll try it out later today and see how it works, and I will post my results.

Analog.

Since you already have the provinces in individual pieces, you could just make a black background for the Canada/Provinces outline(make this white), export this, use the clipper bracket to remove the background leaving the outline, go back into the scene, resize the same as it was exported out of photoshop, and position just above the ground. Then working from the top camera, bring in each province and position underneath the outline guide. You should soon have them all resized correctly!

LOL.....you know, this is even easier. If all the exported grey scale images you used for the individual provinces were to the same scale, all you have to do is resize each one to the dimensions of the exported grey scales!

If I had somehow known about this earlier, I would have offered to make some .ai files by tracing the map and used those to make (Wavefront) .obj. But it's been taken care of already. At least it wasn't the 50 states.

When I tried to bring each individual Parts of the Map into Bryce as individual Pieces they all got scaled to fit whatever the Bryce Terrain editor square window is.

That's correct, what you have to do now is resize each via the attributes box to the same size as the greyscale image used to produce them!

Late day at work didnt have time to work on it tonight, but I will tomorrow, and thanks for all the advice it is very much appreciated.

Other than this thread, I'll probably end up selling this online somewhere since I don't have much use for a 3D map at the moment.

WOW!!! :) hehehe... I'm still messing around with it, you make it look easy.

I just thought of something... we are doing terrains, but not. :)

They are terrains...not sure what you meant there?