Atomic_Anvil, many companies give away older versions of programs. It gives people a chance to try an older version and hopefully decide to upgrade. That's how I got Painter 5, Vue 2, trueSpace 2 & 3, Cinema 4D CE6, and more. I now have Painter 7, tS 6, and C4D 9, none of which I'd have considered if I hadn't received a free version first to try out. DAZ is not going to break "Bryce up into several smaller apps so that they can sell each piece seperately". They've said this several times. Bryce 5.5 is going to decrease render times and allow you to bring in figures from DAZ Studio much easier and modify them later if needed. There are also some other new things but we haven't been authorized to talk about. And remember folks, when you make changes to software code, either to add features or optimize code, there are things that may not work right and that has to be tested and fixed. That may affect some other feature, which has to be run down, fixed, and tested. Draculaz, there are no major changes to the GUI so screen shots aren't going to show anything. Give them time to make sure the program is stable before releasing it to all of us Bryce addicts.