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One of the things that makes Bryce 2 so powerful and easy-to-use is that it includes presets for just about everything, including the environment and object materials. However, if you couldn't change them or make new ones, Bryce wouldn't be very useful for more than just designing simple scenes. The Sky&Fog controls are easy enough to use, but the most important editor is the Materials Editor. The Materials Editor is so complicated that I won't go into great detail right now, but you may need to edit or create a new material if you are unable to find a suitable preset (which is not all that likely, considering that Bryce has one of the biggest Material collections around without the need for buying a separate package).
Bryce also has support for importing both 2D images in BMP, PSD, and TIF formats, and 3D objects in the popular 3D formats DXF and 3DMF. This means that if you need to create a really complex object that Bryce isn't quite suited for, then you can just create it in another program and import it into Bryce. Bryce's 2D image support includes support for an alpha channel, so you can import an image that includes transparent areas. This works so well, in fact, that many of the pre-built trees that Bryce includes are just 2D images, instead of being actual 3D objects. This really cuts down on rendering time!
