Hmm.. I nver go through the grouping, regrouping, and smoothing steps, but I have Bryce 4. What exactly doesn't work? Is your texture applied when you render the figure, but incorrectly? Or is no texture applied whatsoever? Make sure you are copying the texture into the alpha channel in the Pictures dialog box or else Bryce will consider the white sections of the P4W texture PART of the texture. The Alpha section makes sure that ONLY the colored parts are applied to the figure.