thanks for the info, i knew about the alpha plane, buts its not the real thing like poser, or cinema, they have that ability to make a static picture background to work with, was wondering if that option was in vue anywhere

Why didnt I think of that...i feel stupid..I've seen that before. Thanks a bunch for the info.

yea, ive got mystical lighting from autofx, which does it, i was just going for natural.

no, in poser you can throw a picture as the background, then take the ground plane and angle it with the picture, and adjust lighting on the character to match the scene, I was just wondering if thats possible in bryce, but i dont think it is, without actually making a 2d object model, which in that case wouldnt work well at all.

yea, i know about the 2d picture, i was just hoping in had the same option as like...poser did, then you could adjust the shadow on the ground plane to make it look like it was sitting on the picture you put in the background

big thanks to tjohn though, the wireframe resolution helped, i just tried it out, did exactly what i needed it to do. Never messed with that option ;p

another thing i was curious, i heard shrek and lord of the rings used maya, i was wondering what software they use to build and animate their characters, looks "poser like"

let me rephrase...i also need to be able to export it as a .3ds or .obj

http://www.datamike.com/susu.htm awesome looking program i will get it if i cant find anything else