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A while back I asked for advice to make realistic lightning for a bryce scene.  I got a few suggestions and what I finally settled on was free hand a bolt in paint program and the convert it into a lattice in bryce. 

Maybe someone can improve on this.

Thanks for ideas in the past.

Now my question is how to make a bryce tree appear to be bending in the wind ????
Ideas anyone????

I saw your post..  I did a lightning lattice as a background to a lighthouse...  I think I was the one.. you ask... but.  none the less.. you did a great job... 

trees bending.... back to PSP... half image and half drawn...  how close to the camera will the tree be??

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The lattice you used for lightning works great for bent or knarly trunks, too.  Make your lattice trunk, then add a Bryce tree for the leaves, and hide the Bryce tree trunk in or behind the lattice trunk, or boolean it off.

kool