The things I like the most about Carrara: 1. Price 2. Easy rendering engine setup, for great rendering results. 3. Flexible and powerful shaders. 4. Number of features at hand (trees, terrains, sky, NPR, physics, etc.) 5. Did I say Price/Features? Things I would like to see in Carrara 5: 1. All features of the program should have the same user interface and commands, this would greatly improve workflow. Examples of things that don't follow the same interface and commands are: Metaball modeler (UI), Shaders (Cut,Paste,Copy), UV mapping. 2. 3d paint tools (existing ones are very primitive) 3. Translucency and Subsurface scattering 4. Soft Body Dynamics and Fluid Dynamics 5. A way to blend textures between shading domains. Basically some kind of gradients that are applied at the border of shading domains so that the transition between shading domains is not abrupt but gradual. Thanks for soliciting input and listening.