Attached Link: http://www.universe3d.com

You can make trees in Amorphium and though I'm excited to see airflames's metasequoia tut, it seems to me that amorphium would be faster at this. Amorphium from Play software was a freebie on a magazine some time ago. The box version with the manual was dumped on Ebay a few weeks ago and I got one for $6. If you go to the web site above you can buy the pro version for about 100 bucks or you can get the www.dvgarage.com package for 200 (watch the popup screen). I got the package. Its the full version 2.9 of Universe with about 3gigs of training videos. Well worth the money because you get a modeler that does nurbs, ubernurbs, bezier, boolean, and on and on. You can save the model in .fac format which amorphium will read and import. You can then export in .obj format, etc. Go get the demo's first. They work well for 30 days. Universe is NT based so you will need NT or win2k. Might work on xp pro, haven't tried that yet. While amorphium works on just about anything, universe won't work on 9x systems. Anyway, making the tree trunk in amorphim is a snap. the leaves are another story and I don't have any tips there except to suggest a sphere with one of the foliage materials in Bryce. Again, if you make your sphere in Amorphium (morph to your heart's content) and import to Bryce, you can texture and export.