Eovia has a cool new choped down version of Carrara, even the free demo version (which will export in 3DS format) will make half of what you are looking for and you can try it for free. http://www.eovia.com/ Products - All Products - Carrara 3D Basic 2. The Full Carrara Studio will do all of the above, and I am starting how to tutorials here in the forum in a couple of days, the first fuw tut's will only require the Demo version. Worth checking out since it is free. OH and it works in any version of OSX or Windows XP