I'm using Bryce 5 and I was wondering if you could place an entire bunch of trees at once istead of putting them one by one and if that is possible, can I export my bryce scene (including textures) to poser? Thanks Peevee

#1 There is a background or two featuring groups of trees on a 2d Plane, but you'd have to look them up.... #2 No...(at least I've never heard of it)

I've seen several tutorials where you just duplicate your trees, use the random spread tool, and drop everything onto the scene. You can go in later and edit the trees individually to give them some variations.

You can multi replicate and use a disperse like 2d 3d with rotate or resize. The problem is resize is often too extreme and all the trees still have exactly the same branching. You also don't want to use 3d rotate and stand the trees on end or flop them over on their sides. I do a multi replicate of about 50 with all the scaling at 100%. I do a 2d disperse to get the trees spread out at random. I highlight about 5 trees and edit the gravity or randomness just a few clicks off the default settings. I displace these up Y so I know they are done and select 5 more. Some I also rescale a few percent. When I have gone through all of them I select all.I press the down arrow to drop them on the terrain, then I go get a snack because it's going to take several minutes to calculate all the drops. Once the trees are down they will all stop on the terrain as soon as the root tips touch. Displace them all Y down a little more untill the roots are buried. Once you are satisfied they are all tucked in you can then deselect them. Look for the occasional straggler that hit the top of another tree when dropped and is stuck in the air. Shift it over and drop it again till they are all planted. FYI you cannot export Bryce Trees.

You can export some things from Bryce like terrains and lattices, but trees are made of metaballs, this is why you can't export them. Metaballs and Bryce primitives can't be exported.

And one thing to watch for when multireplicated is trunk vanishing when visually overlaid with another tree of the same settings. A simple fix is to open one of the offending trees and tweak the random a tiny bit.