Talk to anyone in 3d and they know about or have used Bryce. This is great, but now they say I wish it had insert feature here and start talking about the big name exepensive apps. Im not sure whether Bryce is an introductory 3d program or something more, but unless your already in a 3d career, Bryce is a good stepping stone without the learning curve. As for intergration with Daz/Studio I think more power to Bryce, as long as it doesn't interfere with it in a way that it changes it for worse. Ganthor, my version(Bryce 5.5c) bought off the shelf at a local comp store(in DVD case)installs files, I believe, for Studio, but you have the choice to hit that button on the interface or not. You could run Bryce and never see Studio(except for the button :).