I made a statement much earlier on this thread about Bryce 7 being able to now export an object file you just applied the textured maps to...  I was very excited and I am still..  But after several experiments..

I found You can export a template mapped textured object file but you'll have problems importing it again and viewing it in Bryce 7... I was able to view it in another App..    If you exported the same file to a 3DS file format you'll have more success...

I guess this is early beta and that export function is not totally functional.

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