About a year ago I made a craggy, rusty texture and applied it to a fairly simple shape and rendered it in similar lighting situations in Ray Dream 5.5, Strata Studio 2.5, Bryce 4 and Lightwave 5.6 as a test for render quality. I worked in each program to get the best render possible at 175 dpi. Ray Dream's output was easily the worst, very plastic and the bump maps really looked fake, Bryce was a little better, Strata was considerably better than Bryce and Lightwave was easily the best render of all. Although I was a little surprised at the difference in quality, nothing surprised me as much as when I got Carrara and re-rendered the original RDS file. Not only was the rendering much richer and closer to the Strata/Lightwave benchmark, it was also faster. This is an added plus that Eovia should trumpet.