There are times when you need to take a “shortcut” for expediency sake and you find a way to pool your artistic toolbox together to produce something that would normally take you a fair amount of time to accomplish. For instance, I needed to produce a quick Corinthian column capital for a vaulted ceiling scene. I imported a couple of vector graphic leaf designs into Photoshop from my personal clipart collection and used them as the bases for grayscale heighmaps, which I then imported into Bryce as terrains. I then exported from Bryce into 3DSMax and bent them to fit my form.

 

Be advised tho, these Bryce exports are polygon heavy and although you might be able to squeeze good effects from a polygon cruncher plugin they are best exported from Bryce when you simply don’t have the time to model your own.