When you want your cave-walls to be detailed your should use Bryce, no only do the latices render faster than highly complex imported models I think modelling the cave is faster in bryce too. As for the bats, maybe you should make them in 3DS-max. But if the final render is going to be done in 3DS-max, you should just make everything else in 3DS-max too.

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