Well, I've 'used' Blender (mainly as a tool to do things that Wings won't do) since about 2.44 or so...
Saw the 2.5 interface, that almost looks usable.

Blenders' 'failing' has been the GUI (more gooey than GUI..;) has menus, submenus, etc. It has the benefit of making Truespace look easy...;) I've only found one package out there that's even harder to use, and that's a linux text editor called 'vi'...;)

It's not really 'free', but I hear that Hex 2.2 will be out on 3d World (at least in the US) about late June-early July.

Can't have too many packages, though.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)