With the right settings you can make the scenes render much faster. (not in all cases but in some) I've tried is once with my alien modelled in AMAPI 4.1 (My first posted image features the model) and it rendered 12 minutes in Bryce 3D, 11 minutes in the Demo of bryce 4 and I got it down to 7 minutes in Bryce 5.

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