Is this for real? Is there going to be any word of it on this forum other than here? I'm curious..I'd be interested to join in... PAN~

Hey don't know if it helps..I was able to import a poser figure with textures surprisingly with no trouble at all. I don't know if I did anything else to it..but I'm pretty sure I didn't. a) I exported the figure in the pose I desired as an .obj b) I then brought it into Painter 3D and painted it's colors the way I wanted. c) and don't ask me HOW because it never seemed to work before..I opened Bryce 4 and IMPORTED the .obj , I was asked one question concerning location of a texture..and I answered it...and the next thing I knew the poser was in bryce WITH full texture already applied. I was shocked because as far as I'd always known it couldn't have been THAT easy... Any answers from anyone out there? PAN~

Hey thanks...am looking forward to your clip. I've actually picked up Premiere and I agree..am VERY pleased with it. I too will try and post a movie soon. (still trying to get the hang of those compressions...not sure which ways are the best yet) PAN~ :)

I've created smoke and other things by applying those "cloudy" textures to shapes like the doughnut and cylinders...then with a little bit of tweaking you can work them / shape them into a "mist" or smoke effect of your liking... Sometimes just applying things to other stuff you'd never think of mixing together produces some wild new effects. PAN~

Thanks for the info! I forgot to update everyone...I actually picked up Adobe Premiere 5.1 (and upgraded it for free at the adobe site to 5.1a). I'm pretty pleased with it so far...I've managed to turn a 30.2 sec animation I created in Bryce into a minute long animation with cuts and music and all that funstuff....maybe I'll try and post it here some time..... :) PAN~ (had another question but don't recall just now..OH wait! I do now...but it's for the Poser side..)

YES! Thanks alot. It gives me a better understanding of what's out there for sure now. Now if only someone could help me figure out how to run my Adobe Premiere 5.1 all would be good in this world. Sadly the adobe forums are not as easily navigated as this great forum. Ug! I hate dealing with it and their tech help is off for the weekend. I keep getting this error message when I go to run it: The Dialog Manager failed to initialize, the system may have too many fonts installed or the file ADMPlugin.apl may be missing or damaged. Everytime I get this message the program fails to launch! I haven't been able to use it since I GOT it! Arrrg! I have uninstalled it, re-installed it, restarted, shutdown, etc. and nothing! Anyone out there have a clue? Technically it is a Poser/Bryce question since ultimately it will be used to piece movies and sounds from both those programs together. PAN~ (cursing adobe right about now)

Hmm...makes sense that animation CERTAINLY spelled DOOM for the X-MAN. hahaha.....can you imagine? What if Xavier had to mind meld (hey the vulcans ain't the only ones who can do that!) with Wolverine one day? Could you imagine the horror? Ooooh da HUMANITY! Say now that I've actually chatted with you a bit, may I ask you a question? In your animation "Roboscream" I was very impressed by the sound effects. Particularly the excellent "MuuuuRAAAAAHHHHHKIZZKIZZK" sound the robot made at the end (it's scream sound effect). If you wouldn't mind, where did you obtain them (the sound effects)? Or did you create them and if so, what software did you use? Also..and I know this is more than one question, What did you use to piece it all together? The sound, etc. I have Adobe Premiere 5.1 (actually the ups man has it and should have dropped it off at my door earlier TODAY since I paid extra to have it sent overnight) and as I've mentioned before..for all of my fooling around at the forum here, I am actually serious when it comes to my project (myself and several others are working on an actual game from scratch). So you can say that in the past few months I've spent quite a bit on software for this project. I was curious if you used any of these programs in your movies and if so which di d you find helpful and which did you find confusing. Thanks for taking the time to help me out with my questions.. PAN~ (Insane but with a good heart)

Sadly no she is NOT the Phoenix (hold on I don't want her to see me type THAT!) but I must say that she is seeking therapy as of this afternoon. She feels you've warped her fragile lil' mind. She says she closes her eyes and all she can see is Wolvie's seductive love dance.... Perhaps in the future you might wish to place a warning label on your Animations. It would certainly keep the innocent from being warped. I grew up in a bad neighborhood and let me tell you...I made sure the windows and doors were ALL locked tight after I saw your animation...shudder PAN~ (Innocence lost- "so this is what it's like when the doves cry...")

Oh dear heavens. I downloaded "The Truth ..." last night. I went into the living room and played some QuakeII (N64)while it was downloading and when I came back found my girlfriend with her Jaw dropped and with a comatose look on her face as Wolverine's -ahem- strange rythmic girations had her glued to the computer moniter as wild unholy music blaired! I can't BELIEVE what I saw! HAHAHAHAHA...and the campy Batman & Robin style text boxes....hahahahaha..WHAM! BOFF! BOOF!! I will never view the X-Men the same way again....sigh. PAN~

Not a bad idea....or simply if you wanted to make a hair net on a McPoser figure....kewl! (hey I wished that feature was there when I created my Cyberg...er...forgot I had to rename it here for the forums sake....hmm...just go to my website and you'll see it in my art gallery..) http://members.tripod.com/~PANdeRUS/index.html You'll see the effect that I did on my image that would have been so much easier with your idea....(We at the forum call it the 'Mobius' technique...) PAN~

I hear ya! I've noticed that not many "POSERITES" (?) post in the Bryce forum and not many "Brycerians" (?) post in the poser forum...can't we all just get along? Anyhow I'm gonna make an effort to post here too. I don't want to waste ONE bit of our PRECIOUS FREE RESOURCE! WHO'S WITH ME!?! (ok so I'm tired and it's late and I'm annoyed I didn't get much poser time due to OT at work.) PAN~

Thanks again! (now if I only knew which was better to spend my cash on FIRST...Macro's Director 7 or Adobe's Premiere?) PAN~

Thanks so much! Now one more question...you say about $800? I am looking at egghead.com's site and they have it for: $476.12 That's Adobe Premiere 5.1 Am I looking at the correct product? I have a PC and I have noticed that it's a bit more for the macs. PAN~