Anyone who can afford Max can pay someone to write their own plug-in. Here are some basic useful things: 1) Read .pz3 files (should be in 5.1, not 6); 2) Model curvature of the Earth (this is REALLY needed); 3) Render in background facility; batch renders; 4) Non-tree vegetation (as mentioned above); 5) Group texture copy (when groups have same constituent parts). I like the idea of a wave lab and weather lab.