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I've made metal texture tests a while ago. Metal is generally not as smooth as the default Bryce ones. I would use a brushed pewter textures with a bitmap texture used as bump and maybe diffusion/diffuse color map. Also reduce reflexion if you want the Check out the attached site for tileable metal textures. I've had good results with these.

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The answer is... no. I've tested it with grass, not trees, around 1000 grass blades of 8 polygons each... it does not work very well. When you drop to ground, half of them go underneath the terrain. The only solution I found was to select around 100 grass blades at a time and then drop them to ground. Make sure that your ground is not locked before proceeding.