Hi! I want to set up an imaginative world and use animations in it from Poser4. I have heard that Bryce only works with stills (?). IS there a program that I can be used along with Poser 4? To go one step further. Is it possible to set up avatars with Poser 4 and create someting like Active Worlds?? Is there anyone working upon that idea or am I allready beyond the field of vision now :-) ? Thanks in advance, Benny

Bryce will use animations from Poser but it's somewhat of a pain to do. You have to export each frame as an OBJ file then import each into Bryce and set up the keyframes. If you've got MAX, Konan is working on a plugin that'll move a Poser animation into MAX - the last update I saw was pretty impressive. You could create an Avatar with no problem ('tis, after all, just a modified figure). As to creating something like Active Worlds - I don't know, either if it's possible or if anyone is working on it. Paul

I am pretty sure that the pros render in layers and then composite the layers in the final mix. this avoids a lot of needless rerendering extraneous elements. unfortunately to do this inside Bryce is not presently possible. in order to layer your animations, you need to map your texture onto a simple 3-D plane with your poser.avi and and a transparency mask. neither Bryce or poser allows mapping avi's onto objects. I have made this suggestion to Eric Wegner, the author of Bryce, but never heard anything back. your alternatives are either an editing program like Premiere, or Vue3 is supposed to allow mapping avi's onto objects. doing your imaginative worlds idea would be very complex. the only "easy" application that does what you want is called Nemo. http://www.nemo.com/ it costs $1000, which is cheap for everything you're trying to do. You're ahead of the technology by a few years.

heya; ray dream studio 5.02 imported a pz3 animation file just fine into its timeline. i cant say i've done it with a p4 animated pz3, however. (nor can i speak for rds 5.5.)