I'm the hobbyist. If you like, add my web page, http://home.att.net/~ozolins/ (Graphic Cheeseworks) Oh yeah, James.. How could anyone think Truespace's interface is intuitive?? I played with TS3 for ages, never could accomplish anything. Bryce 2 was the first 3d proggy I ever played with, just loaded it up and started working. Very easy to pick up... Oh well. To each their own, I guess. =)

Thanks Xurge! =) Rosh

Jon Ozolins ozolins@imap2.asu.edu I didn't have any problem with the darker interface. I never used the alternate preview modes, but I can understand how that would piss some people off. The insanely increased render times are what really bothered me. Bryce rendered slowly to begin with. Now in the "update" they actually INCREASE the render time?! What kind of logic is that? I didn't reinstall because it would be something of a pain, but the starfield improvement was hardly impressive, and I seriously doubt I'll use the new mapping modes. So essentially, the update served only to annoy the masses. Not a very good business practice. Jon Ozolins

If you look for my Bubble, Bubble... image, that's my sort-of response to your other challenge. The one about a halloweenish scene. I didn't quite stick with your challenge, but it was definitely the inspiration for the pic. =) Rosh

I dunno. I found a link in the poser forum. Search for Staale, and grab the hi res (I think it's 3000x3000) texture.. it's on his web page somewhere. Rosh

Thanks. I'll see what I can do with that.. While I'm looking though.. If anyone knows of a long, loose, short-sleeved shirt, I'd appreciate it. Something that hangs a little past the waist... =) Rosh

Hmm.. I've already got a red-haired, green-eyed character. I think I'll change this girl's eyes to blue... I just sorta forgot. =) Rosh

Another thing to do is go to run, and type msconfig That'll bring up all the startup stuff. Click on the startup tab, and it'll get all those other programs that run at startup but aren't in the startup folder. =) Rosh

I've got some pointy ears in my Goblin morphs download, just look in the poser freestuff. Sharkey, at least, seems to like them. =) Rosh

Oh yeah. I know. I wish I had a render slave for this sort of thing so I can keep doing stuff while rendering.. but it's enough of a pain to ship my one computer back and forth between home and my dorm (not to mention expensive)... I don't even want to think about two comps.. maybe if I could land myself a decent laptop... =) Rosh

Finally done! 19:30 hrs. My new record... and that's on an Athlon 800, mind you. As for disabling everything, well, I do that overnight. During the daytime, well, I can't live without my computer.. i.e. i'll just have to deal with the slow render for now. It's usually not that bad. This was just a tough pic. That's all. As for a mac, well, I really, really hate macs. If getting a mac would cut 10% off my render time (which I doubt), I'll do without, thank you very much. (but I don't wanna get into a mac/pc discussion, so we'll drop it there). Rosh

I live on this machine.. This will probably make my record of longest render. The current winner's 13 hours, and that was my very first abstract, the one I did in response to Verdie's challenge. Not surprisingly, this one's also an abstract. I think one reason it's taking so long is it's at 1024 x 768 (was gonna be my wallpaper, but I decided I wasn't quite happy with it.. and I thought of something else to make for my desktop) so I'll post a reduced form on the gallery, and if anyone wants it, I'll upload the full-size to my web page. Rosh

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to export Bryce materials except into Bryce's .mat files, which are not the same, unfortunately, as Max's .mat files. Sorry, Rosh

There's pretty much nothing that can import .max except Max, because it's their proprietary scene file, not a mesh file. As for particle systems, I don't believe that it's possible, though you might try exporting to .3ds and see if that works (I haven't used Max in a long time, so I don't remember much about particle systems..) Rosh

No prob. Hope it works out for you. =) Rosh