Well caligula, I certainly didn't mean any offense. I only meant I don't want to emulate it, I want to do it dead bang the way it is. Those transparent plane trees in the presets tell me it's possible. I just have to find out how those were done. I have to go deep into my books for the answwer I guess. I know I have a reference on making those kinds of trees in MAX, I guess I'll find out if I can do it in max and then import it into Bryce. I wish Hawk would have answered this thread though. I know he told me once there was a way to make parts of a texture transparent. I just can't remember how he said to do it.

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