I was wondering what other applications there are what Bryce-user should use? I believe there are many useful progams in the depths of the net that help somehow using Bryce... and I don't mean Photoshop or big programs like that. Thanks for any replies!

Wings 3d is an app a lot of Bryce users have. It is a free modeling app and is fairly easy to use. Your models can be imported straight into Bryce and textured.

d;oh! beat me to it. Another one is called Grouper; it's good for keeping textures together when exporting figures out of Poser (or Daz Studio, if you have an earlier version of Bryce; 5.5 has this set up as a feature).

To be honest (or maybe biased), Bryce doesn't really have all that many plugins, it's a fairly standalone program.

If you want to do postwork (don't do me fer heresy..;), there's a Photoshop clone called 'the Gimp', which is free, and with a helper program (I unfortunately don't remember the name of...sigh..;) can be made to work just like Photoshop, right down to the filters. Do a Google on Gimp, and it should come up. Grouper should be in Utilities in Free Stuff.

If you have money to spend, I hear Silo's another good modeler...but I dont' have money, so I don't know..;)

Elefont - if you want to bring in 3d mesh text into Bryce.

http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/FrmDownloads.html

UVmapper Classic (if it's still out there) is nice. The pro version is decent from what I understand but not free like the classic one.

Then there was some cool wall texture generator from acme brick company. Intended to make patterns for people buying real bricks, but it creates nice .jpgs. I think the website is www.acmebrick.com or some variation. Dunno if the app is still there, but it couldn't hurt to look.

I was going to say Wings too, but I've been beat to that one already...

Oh yeah-- Arbaro! You can find it at arbaro.sourceforge.net. It's a nice Java based tree generator for scenes where the Bryce trees just aren't good enough.