Personally, I've given up waiting for Bryce to improve and am intending to move on soon (my render times seem directly proportional to the square of my poly-counts lately). I think that Bryce is a good renderer, although it is suffering some aging in that regard, but it is a terrible modelling application as it stands now and its animation capabilities are nearly as primitive as those of Wings3D's. I'm not dissing Bryce; it's a great program, but it has aged very badly and I'm not so sure that DAZ will be able to fix that. I wouldn't expect them to be able to do so with a single new version of Bryce, but I don't think that they will be able to do so with any number of versions of Bryce. I'm not even dissing DAZ either, but let's face it: they are a small company whose primary product and emphasis is not Bryce. Can we really expect them to devote the enormous time and effort that would be required to elevate Bryce to a level where it can compete with more popular and respected programs such as Carrara? Personally I don't, and I don't even blame them.