I also find the plug-ins essential. And I guess so does Eovia, since they opted to include Anything Glows into the software! Highs praise Eric! I have also been impressed with his tutorials, and the quick support he gives. (Especially through this forum!) The only problem I find is when some of the settings are set to high (like anything grows for lawns,) it starts to bring my computer to its knees with the polygon count. Sssslllloooowwww interface response. But the final renders are worth it! I don't "enable" until it's render time, but still, it gets hard when doing test renders to turn things on and off.