God. It was a piece of software that did booleans better then any program to date, I was so impressed on how I could boolean particles and meld things together. From there is was a few freeware programs to get a feel for things. I tried Max (one of the ones on dos) and eventually I decided after seeing Bryce 2 it was the one for me. I rendered out a few sphere's over checkered planes and I was hooked:) (I was running Bryce 2, 3, and 4 on a 233 mhz machine, the render times were killer) After Bryce I bought Poser 4, decided it was to limiting, after a brief skirmish with Raydream, I became a dedicated Carrara user for awhile (still am kind of) now I'm learning blender, I've decided the evil 3d gods can keep there money:)