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its great to have bryce 6.1  and daz working together. u might even think about getting aniMate. i move daz figures and daz animation into bryce via the daz plugin without any problems. it works great. daz has some really cool animation gizmos too that really make it a gas. while i'm totally sold on daz and bryce my favorite program in the whole universe is poser. in my opinion it is stand alone. i get poser stuff into daz but it's not super easy. most daz downloads download themselves az daz features and as poser items too and they work well in both programs. backgrounds made with bryce scenes work great in poser and it's easy to use poser ground as a shadow catcher that will make your poser figures appear as if they're all part of the same scene. it's also a blast to use animations made with daz and bryce as background animtions in poser with everything working quite smoothly together. believe me it's a little work but for the artistic adventure of a lifetime you are headed in the right direction.

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i got my bryce up and running on vista and i love it. one of my favorite programs but i admit that vista really is a pita.

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i liked the ug movie.

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i was able to use amorphium 3 to morph as well. this is jessi.

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     i hear u and i must admit i'm kind of jealous. believe me i've got a big pull in that direction myself. when i get a big bad urge to write code i'll do something with povray. u might try doing that yourself just as a curiosity. try saving a poser file. converting it to povray with poseray and then try to fix the povray code so that you get something decent by rewriting the povray code so that your picture will at first render anything and the render a decent picture . and then as an even more fun exercixe rewrite the code that you've made so that it animates. ah there i am back to animation.      something more practical and perhaps even profitable might be writing a python script that writes a tif or png to a transparent plane that can then be moved around easily in your scene with more python scripting that would keep it upright and parrallel to the x axis or maybe just parrallel to the main camera. at your discretion it would or wouldn't leave shadows. this would be particularly useful in creating text with other programs (could even be 3d text with shading.) lots of free programs do this. i do this in post editing with gimp and make it look fancy and even looks like i did it within poser. it's hard though and takes  lot of fancy 2d layer work, but it's probaly easier than importing 3d text made with another 3d program into poser then posing it and then texturing it and all that. would be a chore, but by just laying some transparent lettering already textured on to a transparent screen that was limited so that it had to keep facing the main camera. instant layering. and it would probably be easy to script and it could be very useful.

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there's a lot i want to do and i don't have time for it all. i've been there and done some of that. some other things that i've done that are along these same lines that u would probably think are fun are writing povray code. writing gimp script-fu. there are even ways u can create script-fu plugins for gimp with python. i think about getting that philc pyhon deal where he shows u how he made his python scripts. if moray gets back going u might want to write luna scripts for it. cooler yet learn build wings 3d plugins with erlang. maybe one day but now i'm trying to focus on animtion. creating bvh files with poser and raw data from the melan institute. becoming more proficient at building animations in povray (poser has some great tools), becoming more proficient with anime studio, virtual dub, radvideo, movie maker, gimp gap, audacity, speech synthesis, character formation, and morphing, using philc s bvh poser python scripts, using renderstudio python scripts for lighting, building animations in daz, bryce, daz and bryce togetherto make animations, etc. somewhere down the road there i'm going t get to poser python scripting or die first. i'm betting on the die first.

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i'm not nancy but i think poser scripting is cool and i'd love to do some.

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i see how these could be helpful.

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and here's her alien brother. he's not a morph, he's an asparagas.

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now here she is after a few minutes of changing her in wings 3d and then morphing her in poser. i could have gotten much more involved. i guess she must be her alien sister now.

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nice! here's the perfect human female with someone else's off beat texture. this is right out of the tube. u can't morph her in the face room.

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here's the link to the wings poser morph tut its at the top of the wings forum page here at renderosity.

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a lot of free programs like wings 3d have third party programmers write free plugins for export  or for render to programs like povray so borne doesn't even have to write them. so it shouldn't be that hard. though admittedly i'm not a programmer or at least not much of one.

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i'll admit it takes me a while to chage runtimes, but again they are packed.

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the thing i like about the cmu files is you can see animations that show u what animations look like and it's a huge resource. plus it gives u resources that with feeware u can use to create your own bvh files from their captured animation. anything u make this way will need a lot of  tweeking inside poser before it is usable. philc's bvh helper is useful but much can be done with poser animation tools especially the graph editor. when ur finished not only do u own the animation but the bvh file as well after u export it out from poser. a lot of people have already done this. someone on sharecg i think has made most of the mcu bvhs and gives them away on sharecg.