"And, hopefully I'm hoping we will see an opening up of Bryce 5.5/6.0 for WIDESPREAD plugin development. Whether that be for; External renderers Tree Lab vegetation add-ons Vegetaion wind animators Terrain Lab animatable ocean waves Meta Primitives Object Export Poly Editor Oh...do NOT get me started....;oD" Don't get ME started hehehe Maxwell looks cool and it has my name :) I'll try to get an educational license for $200 or so seems reasonable.