Thanks! Some of these are gonna come in handy....

The big difference between lighting in poser and bryce is that in bryce you've got the sun (one big white light), while in poser you've got three or more colored lights...that's the defaults. Skin tones seem to look better with tinted lights. You can of course add radial and spotlights to mimic this in bryce, but that will change the lighting on the whole scene... One can adjust the falloff on the lights so that they only strike the subject. A couple of lights with ranged or squared falloff, and a slight tint, would probobly get the effect you're after (DeanCarl mentioned something simular to this, and his renders do look great). One thing I like to do...I don't like bryce's default sky settings. I turn the shadow intensity down from the default 90'ish to around 60 or so, and change the ambiant color (in the skylab, not the matlab) to an offwhite instead of just plain old white. hope that helps....8^)

Attached Link: http://www.schlabber.org/

I love the trees.....

I usually use the texture to drive the ambience, diffusion, and specular...Set at 85% diffuse, 15% ambiance, and 5 to 20% specular... Wet skin...yeah, specularity higher and just a wee bit of reflection (doesn't take much). Like the idea about a droplet bumpmap.

I've had simular problems with some props not exporting very well as an OBJ, usually the one's that were origionally in another format (3ds, dxf, etc...) My suggestion is to export the figure without the prop as an obj, then just the prop as a 3ds, then import both to bryce...saves alot of trouble if you put the entire figure in a big box that completly covers the figure, and export it in both exports....this allows you to line the two imports up in bryce, and keeps the size consistant. 3ds exports from poser to bryce require quite a bit of smoothing.

Second question: yes and no...if you have a 2D program you're comfortable with you can make some fairly complex items in the terrain editor (Wappen's models come to mind). Both methods are useful, as are mixing the two.

It's just so damned hard getting the clothes to stay on the little buggers.... Nudes are easier.

What I do when importing poser figures is to place them in a big cube before exporting from poser. This way when importing to bryce the scale stays the same.

Attached Link: http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/tyrell/769/poser.html

http://www.fignations.com/jelisa/home.html Good realistic textures.....

Renderotica might have a fresher link.

What bugs me is Cr2's pointing to the darnedest places.....geometries go in the geometries folder, not the libraries..... As for self installers, I detest them. My poser directory is not in C:Program Files, nor is anything else of importance. As of this moment, I have 8 different files named "sword1". We are artists, be creative. They are some really cool swords, though. PS, thanks for all the stuff anyway....8^)

http://www.sysops.clara.net http://www.apocolael.com Might find some useful mats at these sites.....had some other links but they're not working.

Wouldn't mind having one myself. Keep us posted...8^)