Hopefully someone will know what I can do. I want to try and model a house on an existing floorplan. I want to import the floorplan into Bryce and work from a topview to align and set the walls. The height of the walls I will do after the basic floorplan is set up. I tried to create a terrain and load the floorplan onto the terrain and work on it that way. When rendered, I can see the floorplan. Yeah great, but in wireframe, well, you know how things look. I even tried to increase the wireframe to 128 resolution, but it still isn't visible enough to make out the walls and set the foundation. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Use 2D Picture Object to load the floor plan. Then build on it bit by bit.

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

I use IMSI floor plan to do that and it works very well. You can build the house by dimensions and then export the model. The texturing takes some work though. Texturing in Bryce isn't so bad, but I've had a tough time with Poser. IMSI is cheap though and it comes with tons of furnishing models that you can put in there. I posted some screen shots in a thread less than a month ago if you can find it.

Oh, my challenge entry for this month was done with an IMSI Floor Plan model.

Thanks for the input, guys. Much appreciated. Erico, thanks. I will definetly check it out. Sounds pretty good.

OK, I tried the importing the image onto 2D. I still don't get an image that is visible from a top down view to see where the placement of the walls should be without having to do a quick render to see where my walls are. I am trying to see if I can somehow get a more detailed wireframe view to place the walls appropriately. If anyone knows how this can be done, I would really appreciate the feedback

Use the 2D pic then render it fully in top down view. Then on the right is an icon of a 3D box, click that until you get both the render and wireframe view. That should help.

Aye, Eric is dead-on. Bryce and floorplans? It's like Bryce and characters... Any of the Home Builder products would be way more useful and powerful for house-building. They are really cheap, too... Give one a try!

OK, so who wants to slap me first for not having done that in the first place? I read into it in the Kitchens book when I was at work, then I got into a car chase and forgot about it. A genuine brain fart. Thanks guys.

Eric, $40 Not too bad - I think IMSI wanted $50 for an upgrade to Version 5 s while back - I'm still usinh version 4. Has the render time gotten any faster since then? - TJ