Infin-D was actually a very interesting program. I haven't used it since 1997 or so. That is way TheGigaShadow got the wrong impression that I was not familiar with it, I just forgot what it was like. It had things that I liked better then Carrara. I agree with what you say about texturing in Carrara, I don't like this aspect about it either. I hope it gets improved on a future version. I also agree with TheGigaSadow about Carrara being 10% ID and 90% RayDream. One thing that he failed to mention was that Carrara also took the ability to display several deferent user defined views on the screen from ID.