Hi All well this is as far as have got with the bending of palms
I have been using an XFrog palm but am not skilled enough to work out if it is possible to bend in this program I saved the image as a lightwave file which is the image on the left.
I resorted to Cinema 4D and found a way of bending the tree trunk but in saving I lost all the textures when saving as a 3d studio model.
It seems like I have solved one problem to find that I cannot get as usable file format for Vue :-(
Any help greatly received
Keith