"My hand isn't steady enough to draw a circle like that, and I can't figure out how to end up with that sort of soft effect, which results in nice rounded corners."

...I know that problem!

As a suggestion (haven't tried it, but should work)...:
If you create a couple of tori (toruses??) in Bryce, scaled appropriately and postioned such that they lie 1/2 way into the ground plane and then, (to get the final effect like wot Baz 'as got), boolean -ve with a couple of very thin cubes set at right angles, you should be able to come up with something similar to Baz's layout.
Then make a height map using the top camera......

Import result and apply to lattice....

Would that work??

(Just thinking as I type..) :-))

Cheers,
Diolma
(Edited 'cos the 1st post didn't make sense to me. The current post is a little better. Not a lot, but better..)

Message edited on: 11/10/2005 14:50