Bryce is sorta the final destination if your using it for rendering. Once in bryce you cant export anything except terrains. I export 3ds from max which bryce will read, bryce will take some textures but i leave all the models plain and texture from inside. People with far more experience then me could no doubt texture much finer using just max but since im missing the skill i pull the models out bare and work from there in the program i know how to texture in. Though max is far superior, i dont know how you would create the atmosphere just right in it to match whats in that scene. If i could i might consider leaving bryce alone because even simply moving objects in bryce to their place can be annoying with no hot keys. Never worked with animations at all at this point and bryce wouldnt take them in any form. Ive not tried any max renderings either but would if someone could show me how to create the atmosphere-fog-haze and so on natively in max. (probly a few skill levels and years beyond where im at right now)