As soon as I saw network rendering, I was hooked. That has been my big pet peeve. Raydream used to have it, then Carrara lost it. Now it's back! :D Sound support: Anyone doing character work NEEDS sound support, and from what the screen capture shows, it drops right into the timeline allowing for lipsyncing the easy way... hell.. the POSSIBLE way! I tried it before WITHOUT sound... ARGH! UGLY! Another plus having that. Motion paths: I hope they REALLY fixed these! So many little animations, fly-throughs and the like, are a BEAR to do with keyframes and tweeners, but with a motion path? Easy peasy! :D I just hope that there is a new tool for simply DRAWING the path in the assembly room. The old way stinks! CADStyle: I couldn't justify it before, now it's included? Great! Transposer: Same here! But lets add the BVH and FBX support. Now the standards of the motion capture industry are available! YEAH! :D Alpha channel support in textures: one word... DUH! This has been a LOOOONG time needed. Why have to make multiple copies of your textures to get simple transparences... input one file for both! :D Scene manipulator: a simple add (from what I can see,) but well worth adding. Terrain editor: Another LOOOOOOONG overdue addition. The old way? Stunk! I hope the new way is more intuitive and allows for DEM support and the like. That's it for my rants... for now! My overall feeling? Yeah! I put MY money down! :D