To be honest, I don't really know what was "new" in ver. 5 except for the Tree lab. I jumped straight from ver. 2 to 5.  lol I think most of the shortcuts are the same. I envy you guys who used ver 3 and 4 and got so profisient in using shortcuts, and modeling with latices etc. :)

When it comes to the tree-lab, there was a challenge here,hmm.. I think around 2 years back. AS might lead you to the right  date. There were lots of cries for "help" and some very helpful guidelines along the way to our final "products". I posted a tutorial on how to make "flowering trees" here, as a result of the challenge. :)

Have you downloaded the 5.01 patch? if not, you need to do that, it comes with lots of tree presets. Also, do a search for Alvin. He posted some great trees in the freestuff here.

Hmm... what else? lol I'm in the midst of teaching a Bryce beginner's class at www.lvsonline.com, so I'm a bit "bryced out" at the moment. (Not to speak of having a bryce render directed to my HD... it's now been running for 24 hrs, and is only 35% done). We have more than 30 fresh Bryce users this semester, and I'm gonna point them in this forum's general direction.

Just as a PS.. I think the renderfarming is new in Bryce 5 (Bryce lightening). I have never had much success with it. Not sure why. So I keep rendering on just one macine. lol

Ouch... where are my manners.... extending hand  Hi, I'm Britt, A stranded Norwegian viking in the US. Partly living in Florida, and partly where I'm at the moment, in the Smoky mountains. :) Nice to meetcha!

Britt