Actually, Ive found Poser 4 worth the upgrade, certainly in light of the closer-to-real possibilities. But Bryce 5 seemed all bells and whistles and not much more - a tree lab? Not useful for me, but thanks anyway. A new render possibility that allows softer shadows? Again, not a real necessity right now. The metaballs function looked interesting, but I can model that in several other 3D programs and import the results. My wishes for Bryce 6 are two-fold: a Boolean function that totally eliminates the subtractive pieces (instead of leaving them as "negatives") and a Poser animation import function. These two programs are meant for each other; I dont understand why Curious and Corel cant bring them together.