I don't get the impression anyone in this thread was indulging in slanderfest. Personally I have an extreme fondness for Bryce, like the Bryce 6 upgrade and was expressing just how hard it is for me to switch to another application at all, even one that has a slightly similar GUI feel as Carrara does. I have utmost admiration for some of my favourite Bryce artists who can make the program truly sing; Frogdot, Meski, Mario G to name but a few.  I am not remotely at their level.  Each to his own is my motto. If I could do what those artsist do in Bryce I doubt I'd bother changing application at all.  There you go, my flaws.

Meanwhile, I'm still having a whale of a time learning my way round Carrara and suspect there may be going to be some images where I mix results from Poser, Bryce and Carrara with the odd C4D/Xfrog tree.  The purists will hate me :D

Kathy