Tks, just found a show stopping bug a few days ago. Glass would go weird from a imported .3ds file from xfrog 3.5 (not sure if all 3ds would be effected). Nothing i did would reset it to reg texture.
Save file, exit then start up bryce again and the texture was ruined.

Went so far as to download vue 8.5 infinite ple to see if that could replace bryce (and im still going to test it).

That being said, I exported all compatible formats of the diode i made, turns out bryce 7 did not corrupt the texture if it was imported as a lightwave lwo file. A close one as I was growing angry since I did pay the $50 bug test fee.

So got the workaround for one bug.