Can't you just do that in the material room? Why not just check Mirror_U or Mirror_V?

Use it all the time. Almost worth the upgrade price for this feature alone. Saves a lot of time, if you want to make a change in one part of a scene, don't have to spend time rendering the whole scene just to check out that one area.

Try removing the bump map. For some reason Poser 6 can't deal with bumps in the reflection.

Yep, go for it.

Have you looked in Free Stuff yet? There used to be some there.

And just to make sure again, the picture you are showing us is what it looks like after you have rendered it and you are not showing us what it looks like in preview mode.

Kind of ironic that e Frontier sells a modeling program bundled with Poser that Poser can't even read the models it makes directly. You'd think they would have added that option in Poser 6.

Probably then what's happending isn't that Poser is locking up, but rather just having to work a long time to export the whole scene. Have you tried leaving it alone for a few hours to see that it eventaully exports the scene? If it is complex enough you might have to leave it overnight. Just out of curiousity, what are you going to do with this object file once you export it out of Poser? Perhaps an alternative would be to export small parts of the scene and then recombine them in the program you are going to use to import the objects.

What are your material settings? They should be: Transparency 1.0000 Transparency_Edge 1.0000 Transparency_Falloff 0.0000 All other setting are irrelevant. Also check your transmap itself to make sure that the parts that are supposed to be tranparent are 100% black, ie red = 0, green = 0, blue = 0 Finally, is this the preview mode you are showing us, or is this the actual render? In preview mode you will see a faint image of the transparent item, but it won't be there when you render it.

Kind of depends on what you are trying to export. Are you trying to export an entire scene or just a morph target or a small object. If you are trying to export an entire huge scene filled with a lot of characters, props, clothes, and hair, then no wonder it is bogging down. If you are just trying to export something small then it sounds like you really do have a problem, because I can export a body part like a head with no problem.

I get the feeling about all these books are good for is if someone has a pirated version it gives them a reference manual.

Another thing I've noticed it that Poser 6 can't deal with bumps in the reflections. I have to disconnect the bump map in the material room.

Bryce is a pain to use with Poser. If you have the money, Vue is the better way to go. But Poser itself has a decent renderer, once you know how to use it right.

And transparacies ARE imported into Vue. One of the big selling points of Vue for me was that it will import Poser scenes directly, instead of having to go through that stupid DAZ studio for Bryce.

Another thing you can do is when the import dialogue box first pops up it ask you if you want to import the entire animation or just a single frame. Click single frame and enter the number of your last frame, the frame that the simlulation stopped at. (30 by default)