"1. A darktree material plugin." I would love that but unfortunately for this to happen the whole core engine of Vue should be transformed into a plugin based application, and I don't know how many chances there are that this can happen. "I'm really looking forward to the new material editor as the old one was more of a technicans way of doing it that an artists way (as in the Darksim tools)." Actually, this is the only part that makes me scared. I was perfectly comfortable with the old material editor. Powerful and easy. I don't know how you can judge the old one as technicians way, and be comfortable with Dark Tree - I know darktree and for me it's the other way around - Darktree is terribly "technician", while Vue's (the current) is friendly - to make a mixed mountain material you just add another then adjust the altitude and slope sliders and that's it. Just find another 3D program that lets yuo do this so fast and well!