There's always room for Hyper-Jello with Brittle Star and Succulent Garnish! ... mmm, Yummy! No matter that it's 100% poisonous. It all started with wanting to make a restaurant scene. I had seen some excellent examples of these in the supplement to a recent issue of 3D World magazine. The important steps (I made several missteps!) were: 1 Create the place-setting In browser, Google research to find place setting layouts Go to your silverware and place mats collection. Get silverware and a place mat, make an inverted setting layout on the scanner bed. Import a scan as a PhotoShop image. Discover that separate scans are needed. Import scan of silverware. Import scan of one corner (~1/4) of place mat. Import scan of napkin. Open scans in PhotoShop. Clean them up! Using PhotoShop tools, make a color image and mask for each of the scans and save as PICT images. Make and save a composite grayscale image for use as a depth map. 2 In Bryce: Create a terrain object, click on Edit, set the resolution to 1024x1024, load the composite grayscale depth image. Set the blending to 100% to start. Make the image serve as a mask, by clicking on the menu icon and adjusting the mask depth. T he red parts are then transparent. Make a test render. Select the terrain object again and then click on the "M(aterials)" tab. Set the material to "Simple and Fast:White", set the Ambiance to zero, click on the "P(ict)" tab, and on the upper right, the "Load" tab. Load the corresponging masked color image. Make a test render. Piece by piece, load the wall, the chairs, the plants (made earlier), the glassware for one table. Make a group of the best arrangement and duplicate (flipped Z), to make a pair of facing tables. Delete duplicate items. Make a test render, make a test depth render. Tighten up tolerances and repeat. 3 Make a final render at full resolution: set the File: Document Setup: Document Resolution: to 1600x1200 and render once more. -enjoy! -jim