Where Eagles Fly

For the clouds...2D Billboards I like to push the bump channel up there to give the illusion of Depth...With Displacement you can add a Higher Poly Billboard and really make them look realistic...Then you can add diferent color'a in the diffusion channel to give awesome results...Also dont forget to use Lighting pointed at the Billboard for better realism...

Thanks The thing I have found out with 2D billboards are that you always make criss cross and group for far away and then upclose single ones,Always set billboards too always face camera that way you can do animations and with an animated 2D Billboard like I have you can and bending and a wind blown effect thru the tree's...In one of the Bryce 7 Content Bundles I will have a few scene that will use the animated billboards's...Until Bryce Libraries are fixed to accept animated Data aka bvh format,Then it will only be made into scene's...

Realistic looking scene, nice composition. You have mastered the use of billboards. It appears to be simple to add a billboard, but in my experience, it is quite tricky to get it right.

Nice blending of the 2d billboards with the rendered material. I always find 2d billboards a bit distracting, but in this case they blend nicely!