The answer to question 1 is: only rocks and terrain lattice objects made in Bryce are exportable. Perhaps this is because they are meshes. Imported objects in Bryce are also meshes. Thus you may combine Bryce terrain/lattice/rocks with imports for exporting later. I think that's the way to explain it. On item 2 of the question, it seems that it's possible for the groove to be an artifact caused by refraction. I know somethings come out funny when I play with refraction on various glass objects. Regardless of your going for the smooth look, I like the way the texture turned out. On item 3, I have a guess. Try selecting the tori (or is that toroids?) on an individual basis. Then on the rotate tool go to the pull down and select "object space". Then try rotating with all the individual toroids (or is that tori?) selected. This probably will not work if you have them selected as a group, it has to be selected as many individuals. It seems the woven look is achieved by rotating on the y-axis while multireplicating a tilted torus. So by changing either the x or z rotation, you should affect the pattern, and perhaps its shape. Also try shifting them positionally in object space as well. I think experimentation is the key to seeing how this works.

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