A little late chiming in on this, but: I've been exporting from Wings as obj. When an object is imported from Wings into Bryce sometimes (sometimes) you can get a better look when the object is lower poly by first Unsmoothing the object, then Smoothing it. I don't know why this works, and it doesn't work with all objects, but it's worth a try if you haven't tried it yet.

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