I am a poser newbee and want to put my characters into their own world but cannot afford Bryce etc. Any suggestions please.

Check on Corel website the did have a 30 day download demo of version 5...I don't know if it's still there or not.

You can insert a scanned photo of a background into poser...

Open your poser file... go to file.... then import... select background image... you can select the pic you want to insert.

Bryce backgrounds (im my opinion) always looks better... they follow the same look... but If you don't have bryce maybe you can download some bryce images to use from somewhere else.... or just use photos.

hope that helps...
-Ivy

The was a full working copy

Check out the next thread. Digit magazine is giving away a full copy of Vue d'Esprit 2. I'm not sure just what features it has, being an old version and all, but it probably would import Poser characters. Ask over in the Vue forum for more info on that. This looks like a great opportunity for anyone who only has Poser.:)

Also, look in the marketplace for the Virtual Forest set which is a whole bunch of trees for poser which you can use (with other props) to construct world scenes in Poser. A few of the trees are available in Freestuff.

Or you could try Nerds backdrop from the store here :) reasonably priced too!

I see fullversions of bryce 5.0 on file share all the time, but i doubt that they are legal.

3d World Kit which I got through 3DCommune allows creation of worlds within Poser at a much lower cost than Bryce or Vue. There are other prop sets available here also that allow you to create a fairly wide array of worlds including sky "domes" as well as backgrounds.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Terragen yet. It's another landscape builder, a bit like Bryce, but free. I'm afraid I don't have a link to the website; anyone wanna throw in there?

Attached Link: http://www.planetside.co.uk

I agree, you wont find a better terrain generator out there that don't cost a ton of money, I actualy prefer it to Bryce & Vue, so much easier to use, and if you use it right a lot more realitic.

that was supposed to sa 'relistic'

I don't think you can import Poser figures into Terragen, can you? That's I've never bothered to try it.

I don't know if you can, but you can use it to make backgrounds.

No you can't do anything with Terragen but make landscape renders, but sometimes simpler is better, I have both Vue & Bryce, and they both have they're good & bad points, but they are both diffuicult to learn, the basis of this thread is, I think, we have a new Poser user, and we all know how difficult Poser can be when you start. One prog at a time, then try others to improve the final outcome. m steadman: try a few of the above programs out, see what works for you, and post your images in the gallery, you're certain to get some feedback and more. Luckily this is one of the best places you can show your talents off, I don't think you will find more people willing to help anywhere else.

Another option is the Daz3d Cyclorama. It has beach, forest, and field sets for $15 total.