There is more than one way to turn a terrain by 45 degrees. If the keyboard shortcut doesnt work anymore then just do it manually. Modifying your warkflow for a new version of Bryce isnt a bad thing necessarily. Something like this doesnt mean instability. Bryce 7 is a different program, and not everything works in the way it did before. The only way to appreciate Bryce 7 is to realize that it isnt Bryce 5. There are differences between the two.

We have to remember, Bryce 5 had lots of quirks too, it wasnt rock solid at all. We just had 6 years to get used to the quirks before the next version was released. Feedback on B5 when Corel first released it was that it was the buggiest version of Bryce yet so far....a big part of the reason Corel stopped development at the time. I too crashed Bryce 5 a million times at first, after about a year of learning what to do and what not to do I got no more crashes. Same with B7, I dont get crashes anymore and I do some insane stuff with it. A lot of people have only now begun to use B7 which means they've been using B5 for 10 years straight doing things the same way. It is not surprising that people wouuld assume B7 unstable, they think it's still B5.

The ideal of high quality textures being a problem is something I've never heard of. I use only high quality textures. There is an issue with image imports for Mac users coming through as blue, but that is an entirely different issue.

I think I need to start hanging out in these forums a bit more. I too often see mis-informations shared here that while well intended, just dont get the juices flowing in the right direction.

Bryce 7 is the single biggest jump Bryce has ever made under the reign of Daz3d. Bryce 7 saw more new features added than any other release. Bryce 7 had a partial base code re-write which was required for compatibility with new operating systems, that broke a lot of convenient functionalities. For some reason, the old base code of Bryce based on Axiom.dll is flaky. Adding in new features always has side effects and breaks old features. This made development difficult since new features introduced so many bugs that each had to be ironed out individually. We have paid a price for our new features. But if making more professional looking artwork is the point, then the tools such as instancing and advanced lighting are worth the loss of a keyboard shortcut for rotating terrains.

I suggest trying out the new tools in B7. ALl those new lights....you should be using them. You should be using instancing and you should be using exporting and the new TA and all that good new stuff. You should be exploring the things these tools allow you to do that you couldnt do before. You will soon find that all of the stuff that's really important to Bryce is still there. B7 is a fantastic program when taken on its own.