how do i import my own textures into bryce to be used? do i save them as .tif? and what directory do i copy them to? please someone help me!

Ok, I know that this is not the answer you are going to be looking for but it's the best I can do. I am not sure how to add your own textures to the gallery thing in bryce so you can call them up easily. It looks to me like they are stored as .shd or .tex files. But if you want to, you can import textures that are stored as .tif or .bpm files and apply them to any kind of object including the ground plane. I found this out from a tutorial on applying a texture to a poser figure in Bryce, but you can do it to any object. The URL for the tutorial is http://www.stewstras.net/baument/images/posertexture1.htm You of course will need to ignore the first part about making the model and importing it into Bryce, but just start where the pic of the material lab is. Also, where it tells you to import the poser texture, just import the pic you want to. I have done this MANY times. I have found that pics of things like wood planks and and concrete and stuff like that make alot better tectures than the ones already in Bryce. I use them alot on things like the floor and buildings etc. I hope this helps. Autoloader autoloader@hotmail.com

Sorry about that, it should be .bmp not .bpm in my previous post. Sometimes my fingers move a little faster than my eyes. ~laugh~

Yes you can, and its easy to do. If your using Bryce 4 you can use jpg as well as bmp, tif. They easiest way to explain this is to follow steps 3 and 4 of my tutorial The first half involves Poser 3 so just scroll down past that. It will show how to import the textures and then how to make presets of them so you can use them over and over. FastTraxx

What kind of textures are you wanting to import? Texture maps for Poser or textures/materials in general that can be added to the presets?