Lovely lovely image! Spit

I ain't saying it's bad. So there. Spit

Forget the grass...I love the mushrooms! Metaballs? Spit

Sharen..I know this doesn't belong in this forum, but just want to point out that Bryce 5 is not slower than Bryce 4 unless you choose some premium render options. It can actually be faster if you lower the RPP and ray depth though that is not something you would normally do. I'm not talking through my hat because I was a beta tester and played with it constantly for literally months. I'm sure Vue will get the rayspray eventually (unless it was patented) because they've put in all kinds of other things that started in Bryce. I still intend to get Vue 4 at some point though. I just don't like the idea of having to pay for extra vegetation and dealing with those serial numbers but I would like to try out the Poser import which sounds fantastic. Spit

Just a quick comment to Sharen. I think maybe you're using the Bryce 5 demo? That is much slower than the real version so it can't realistically be compared to anything. If Vue 4 shows up in retail stores, I'd like to pick it up. I stopped at Vue 2 but really would like to start playing with it again. Spit

Vornado...I got that error a couple days ago on a save. Through the process of elimination I traced it to a specific TIF with an alpha channel I was using as a texture. I couldn't find anything about that TIF that was different from others I was using (that also had an alpha channel, used the same compression method and were saved out of the same program). I did send it to Corel (I'm a beta tester) so they can figure it out. I've done literally dozens and dozens of scenes with Bryce 5 and only ran into it that one time. Spit

You'll be happy to know that the real version renders much faster than the demo. Neat images! Spit

No for water and trees. Water is a texture, not an object, and trees are native. You can export terrains, symlats and rocks and imported meshes. HTH Spit

For rendering a single image you must turn Tile Optimization on for both machines to render. Spit

The patch from Corel to Bryce 4.1 fixed some export crashes. I've imported dxf files and exported them to .3ds etc. The only 'weirdness' I've noted is that Bryce export of rocks to .3ds won't import into Amorphium 1. So I use .obj instead. (I like to smooth 'em in Amorphium) Spit

Harv's work is excellent as usual. I just don't understand if you're not doing animations, why you'd want something like this? I'd think the money could be put towards Bryce or Vue where setting up a scene is easy enough and it's totally your own and unique. To each his own I guess. Spit

Hey Peter Define 'significantly' This is a tempest in a teapot. Spit

Your work is outstanding! I've always enjoyed everything I've seen. Of this batch I really like Bang Bang and Alien Alley. You seem to have your very own personal style which is so hard to achieve. Congratulations on such a wonderful gallery of images! Spit

Douglas re the slow access to the menu. I've heard others say this too. I think it's from two things (1) if the thumbnail is previewing it's going to be slower for the menus to come down and (2) the hit area is smaller than in Bryce 4. You have to hit the top of the screen then the menu pops down. Hard to describe, but what I do is swipe my mouse up as far as the cursor will go and it works. If the thumbnail is rendering, I swipe the mouse up there and click. HTH Spit

Hey Warder...the trunks have textures like everything else in Bryce. If you don't like something you can go into the ME and change it. Really. You don't have to have a default texture on a trunk. So I hardly think Corel screwed up...LOL Sometimes you people slay me. And I mean this in a friendly way. Honestly. Your comment just struck me so funny. Spit