Well, I know Poser is up on the auction block and am a little scared as to its future BUT, I thought this bared saying anyway. These are just suggestions. * Free floating spotlights and ambient lights * Atmospherics that allow clouds, fire,. etc. * Sets available with main prog for setting characters in. * I know I should just use Bryce but going between the two programs is time consuming. Also, I know there are sets available in the Freestuff section (They are great!) but how about some other flats with different interiors and maybe some different genres (i.e. Western, sci-fi, etc) The closest I have seen is Lord's Warrior's "Ready Made Worlds" but so far there is only a medieval tavern. Any sugestions?

I think that Poser and Bryce should be merged into one seemless program... you want a figure, click the poser button... pose the figure... when your done... click the bryce button and there it is ready to play with in bryce... you're not happy with the pose... select the figure, click poser, and change it... and so on...

That might make the combined package rather enormous. But it would make it easier to pose in Poser and get Bryce-type rendering. At the moment, getting anything complicated across from Poser to Bryce including all texturing is rather like loading the pack elephant and then unloading it at the other end. - Or, let Bryce read and FULLY understand .PZ3 files. And let Bryce output in PZ3 format also, or in some format legible by humans. At the moment, trying to decipher .BR3 and .OBP file format is like trying to get into Area 51.

Sturk, I was thinking the same thing when I first read this thread... I thought can't Poser and Bryce just get along?.. I mean it would be cool to have both combined.. As it is now I rarely if ever use Bryce... If I bring in a figure to Bryce with a scene I've set up, I usually change my mind on the pose and have to go back to Poser, blah, blah, blah.. I get annoyed and eventually close Bryce to do my final image in Poser... ~Cindy

Cindy, I've become more Poser friendly in the last couple months... but I still rely on Bryce to do my big project renders... If I need to change something small, I try to get away with what ever I can in PhotoShop... I hate going back to Poser to change anything.

I hope Poser and Bryce are NOT merged. I don't feel like messing with a landscaping program to render a couple of figures. I like the concept of keeping things simple--and Poser does enough things well that to encumber it with Bryce would be a huge mistake. Not all of the artists using Poser are not interested in Christiansen backgrounds or photorealism.

You know Sturk and Freak, what I hate is you can't pose your posettes in Bryce... That's my real complaint.. I'm sure it's all technical, but I still don't understand why you can't..I wouldn't mind using the two if I could bring my Poser people into Bryce and still be able to tweak the poses there instead of importing little statues from Poser.. I prefer Poser but wish it had raytracing abilities like Bryce...

I honestly thought it wouldnt be too much to ask for Metacreations (at the time) to make the programs a little bit more compatible to one another... It would be cool to bring in a poser file that's just a pz3 instead of going through the whole obj thing... and to be able to bring in a terrain from bryce into poser... or at least something in bryce mat or object format... Doug

Cindy--It would be nice to be able to repose figures in Bryce--and I hope that they work the compatability issues out (I can't tell you how pissed I was when I found that Infini-D STILL only exported in DFX and 3DMF format--something MC worked out with Carrara, but they left out the option to import EPS, which is what made Infini-D "Freakachu-friendly" in the first place! So at least I can turn my FreeHand illustrations into .obj files, but it requires some app juggling). I would hate to see Poser (or Bryce) become a piece of gargantuan bloatware just to iron out the compatability issues though.