I have had these programs for years now, always wanted to get a poser 4 figure into Bryce 3D and use the poser 4 textures on it, I have never been able to do this. I use bryce mainly for backgrounds for my work in photoshop, etc... I use poser for the body parts (Hands, Face, skeletons, etc...) Now, I've read countless tutorials on how to move a Poser >>3<< figure into bryce 3d and add texture maps, i've read tutorials on how to move poser >>4<< figures into bryce 4, so figure I should take the parts on the poser 4 part, and the bryce 3d part... It's not working! I've tried for hours and hours, over years and years. Always thinking "I almost got it, just gotta change this, or add this, or, or..." Then I give up and forget about it. Here is one I am reading now that I recently found... http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/poser3_to_bryce3d.htm Now this looks like a great tutorial, the problem is I have poser 4, and this isn't working... So the steps I have memorized... Start poser, create your basic whatever. (I use Default P4 Nude Female) Pose it, Save it as a Wavefront Obj, Single frame. Then they always say something is going to popup asking a question, only thing that pops up is the selection screen for which parts I want to export, I read somewhere to export everything except the ground, so I deselect the ground. I save the figure... I open Bryce 3D, Import figure, smooth figure, click on U to ungroup the parts, deselect the hair (I usually just delete it) then select the other parts and group them back together. Click M for the materials editor, click on Diffuse and Ambient. Then click P, then the pinkish button above the P, this brings up the leo page, I click load on the far right (I have done it every way, left, middle, right, etc...) and load P4 Nude Women Tex.Tif or whatever it is. It shows that texture in the far left window and far right window. In the middle window it is black. CLick the checkmark, make sure it is on Parametric, and click the triangle. Doesn't work. Another tutorial says to paste the texture on the middle window which makes it grey, and makes the far right window almost invisible (in the leo page), that doesn't work, I try using Paramtric World, etc... Please someone help me out here... I see tutorials on Poser 3 to Bryce, poser 4 to bryce 4, what about poser 4 to bryce 3D? Is it suppose to be the same as poser 3 to bryce 3d? If so then why isn't it working? I thought maybe I need patches since I have downloaded it onto my new computer, but I can't find poser 4 patches, or bryce 3D patches. I know their are some because my bryce copy on my old computer has them, but it doesn't work on that computer either. Please someone help me! This texturing thing is just about the only thing I have problems with. Argh.

I think you really do need patches. The Poser patch can be downloaded from the Curious Labs site. The essential Bryce 3 to 3.1 patch is obviously not current, but you can get it at Brycetech. Poser, when you export an obj, should give you a dialogue box with three options asking how you want to export groups and stuff. If you don't see it, something is wrong. You don't really need to smooth a Poser obj file in Bryce. Upgrading from Bryce 3 to 4 is really worth while if you want to work with Poser also - if you can still find B4. Textures should be loaded in the far LEFT window. The middle one is for masks. When you say "doesn't work" what happens? If it looks jumbled, that's because with Bryce 3 you have to rotate the texture in X by 180o.

"If it looks jumbled, that's because with Bryce 3 you have to rotate the texture in X by 180o." I bet that's the problem. I didn't get poser until I'd upgraded to bryce4, and wasn't aware of that.