Ahhh yes...this is a bug. Please do install the 5.01 patch. This will get you some really cool tree presets as well as fix some other bugs. For the soft shadows what you must do is start Bryce, go to sky lab and without changing ANYTHING other setting on the default sky, select the soft shadows box. Now save this as a sky preset. Name is something that you will remember. Now when you want to create a sky using soft shadows, start from your new preset and make your setting changes. Happy rendering! Peggy

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