@ matcreator, personally I do a lot of work in Max, modelling, animating, all sorts, but there is something about Bryce that drags me back - don't know why. I use an old version of Max (3.1) so some things such as atmosphereics I find harder to set up in Max but that may not be reason enough (BTW I also use Bryce exports in Max... so I guess it comes down to what mood I'm in.....) I post an image in the gallery of the tool I did the most work in.....

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.