d_hood, I totally hear where you are coming from. At the most basic level, the improvements you seek are the most important ones that will be updated and fixed. The only non Bryce-like feature being proposed is the spline modeler. Everything else is very landscape and environment oriented: - Infinite Planes - Oceans - Planets and Celestial Lab - Horizontal growth on terrains, with a new real time terrain editor - New rendering engine - Smart Water Planes that create ripples when an object intersects, waves - on a shoreline etc - Vegetation Lab with particle system control - Physics Engine with wind that affects trees, vegetation, and any objectc - enabled to be affected by wind If you look at my interface design, there is a LOT of similarities to the current Bryce. All I have done is made most things instantly accessible, like the create/edit/sky tools. More soon Scott