Yup, same here about the default textures. You have to modify them to get them to look decent; some of the preset waters have built-in distortion that wasn't used very well, I like to make the water clearer and then use fog and/or haze for depth effects. Old tricks, but hey, they work, right? Although some of the new presents that came with Bryce5 look pretty good. I still use a few of the terrain textures and the volumetric clouds (those were the only really good textures in Bryce4) are simply awesome. Also the "Plasma Fire" texture in complex fx. LSD, just out of curiosity, which fractal pattern did you use? Looks basically like Classic Fractal to me.