Wow..  There seems to be all kinds of possibilities as to why the Bryce challenge has declined so.... Some aspects I hadn't even considered for the reason...including the Bryce crashing aspect which has hit us all, no doubt.  I agree that it seems that  "save often" should be the Brycer's mantra. I really don't understand the developers putting out a new product (version of Bryce) that seems to have many operations with an overload of bugginess...  Why not clear most of that stuff up before releasing it to the paying public?  I thought this when I had Windows Millennium... what a mess that was... but it did bring in more bucks from the unsuspecting public....

I also agree about laziness in creating Bryce images that can easily come about from importing objects from Daz and other 3d creators is so easy... that putting together a Bryce scene is as challenging a putting clothes on paper dolls.... not  a lot of creating with just Bryce....  I am Sooo guilty of that... there are so many great models out there to use.... For the latest challenge, The Haunted, I have been trying to create the image using only Bryce...It is a challenge!  And because it is a challenge I am trying different tools in Bryce 7 that I hadn't used before... including the particle emmitter... that I  want to use but haven't figured how to incorporate it into my image yet...but I am trying...

I think also...but this might just be me... that when  a gauntlet is thrown down, that the entry page should be made available at the same time....  Even though we all  like to do our own thing with the images, it is sometimes "stimulating" to see early entries and say..."hey I can do something better than that " or "Gee that is awesome, I wonder what I can come up with that might be even more awesome" and puts me in a competetive mode...which is what  challenges and contests are all about... I think.

I hope to see many entries for this challenge... and those in  the future...

Steve