You've been gone longer than a year. I've been mod for 19 months. In terms of version three, I think the improvements are quantum in terms of improvements. My personal choices are the massive improvements in the soft shadows and the selectable 3D Aura options. There's tons of other stuff that I've always wanted that's in this version too that I think cranked it up a whole notch. I don't think it's quite up to the animation toolset that Lightwave has just yet but outside of that, I think you could put Carrara head to head with Lightwave and have one heck of a contest going on. Racket in the underground makes me think animation is where the Eovia group will be concentrating on soon. That's strictly a guess from me so don't quote me anywhere on that one. There are still a couple of things I really want in the code but my list is really small compared to pre version 3. Lots of other things in the code appear more stable than before (unadvertised bonuses). I wouldn't even think twice about upgrading to 3 if I were going to use Carrara for a proffessional application. Glad to have you back! -Kix

-Kix