Argoforg C4d is set up primarily as a modeller, it does come with an excellent built in render engine but as Stewer mentions, the "real" power is in the Advanced Render module. You can get a lot more information from the Maxon website regarding the additional features added on by the module. Thus far I bought the base pack and Advanced Render on release, followed by Shave and Haircut, Mocca, Thinking Particles and Pyrocluster as module expansions just before christmas, next purchase will be the Dynamics module. Having said that, my next purchase might have to be the 8.5 upgrade, they've done some interesting things to the material dialogues and interface that look like fun to play with and the new sub-surface scattering for character models looks like glorious fun. If you have a penchant for outdoor scenes you might want to consider X-Frog for trees and plants and the Ozone plugin for skies. Cinema has it's own terrain generator so unless you have terragen you shouldn't need much of anything there. PZ3 import doesn't exist (as such) for Cinema 8 or 8.5. The plugin (somewhat broken) from CL is for the version 7 release IIRC, but there is a workaround to make it function in 8. There is however an excellent import utility (free) that actually works from Amazones - I have the url somewhere if you ever need it). I highly recommend this plugin for use with Cinema 8 as it works properly with poser objects, mat files and other things. Other than that I could go on for hours singing the praises of Cinema, I love the program even if I am incapable of doing much with it yet. :)