I spend so much time banging my head against the wall trying to render a poser figure in bryce that I hurt. I can get the figure there, and even apply the texture. But then applying the bump maps, trans maps, settings, etc. just bury me. Seems there are just no good tutorials on the subject as I can never finish anything in bryce. My question is, 'Will Bryce 5 and Poser 5 be more compatible?' Is it asking too much to export a Poser file in 'Bryce' format. Then open Bryce, open the file and ALL textures, maps, props, etc. automatically apply? Does it have to be hard? Will it ever get better?

Take a look at VueMaster. Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com/cr2edit/cr2edit.html Sorry Win only for software http://www.zenwareonline.com for ZenPaint, ZenTile, ZenGrid and VueMaster

Dont know if it will ever get better.Dont believe it.

hmmm i have had good success doing poser object/figure renders in bryce!! perhaps my figures are simplstic or perhaps a bit odd so i could play with the textures a bit.. dunno... but if you have specific questions mebbe i can help. i am no expert or wiz, but i do love bryce's render enginer (even though it is the doggiest in the universe! UGH).. these images were all rendered in bryce with poser figures: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=96505 Umm this one has allot of post on poseidon but hardly any on the sea monster and turtles... http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=93466 there are a few more.. but these are good examples...

Nice image*lol* i like it. yes , of course its possible,but time consuming.And if you use hair with different transmaps the real problems start.

I was trying a mermaid, Pearl, with Koz hair, so yes, hair was the main problem. She also has lots of jewerly props. The problem with taking them to Bryce is Bryce doesn't identify the meshes, so I have to bring everything over one piece at a time using a tall cylinder for heigh reference. Once everything is over then I have to recombine and group everything, after I apply the textures to the individual parts. The trans mapped hair is were I finally gave up. It also doesn't help the the model looks like crap in bryce light. I'm just doing to many things wrong and don't know what to adjust to make it right. :( For example if I had a step by step (I mean a real step by step) of how the woman with the hawk was made I'd be set. So far I have a mermaid with no hair or jewerly and she looks nasty.

Attached Link: http://www.awakemm.com/poserarcana/index.asp

Poser Arcana has a very detailed tutorial about how to import Poser characters into Bryce.

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Attached Link: http://www.brycetech.com

follow the link,there is a tut called "poser to bryce" and in my opinion its one of the best.(really step by step) the hair is really making trouble,use in the beginning one that has only one transmap(with 2 or more its getting worse)

in the tut of poserarcana there is one problem in my opinion: they tell you to ungroup everything, which is something you dont need,and the prob is,that once ungrouped you can move things away(happend to me in the beginning*lol) but the rest is very good

Great links! Thanks!

you don't have to ungroup things to apply or modify object textures!! you hold the ctrl key down while you click the object and you can select individual object within a group. it sounds to me like instead of poser to bryce help perhaps some bryce help would work too... i mean, once you get your objects imported into bryce it's all bryce techniques. the links above have allot of great information though and are well worth reading. so when you get your poser stuff rendered in bryce make sure you post it!! we all wanna see what you are doing 8^}