A few of us on the Carrara yahoo list have talked lately how powerful Infini D and Raydream were back in there day. In fact, Raydream back in its time had more registered users then any other 3D program. That being said Carrara is the child of these two products, but it lacks many features that both had that made them so popular, some of us older users can recall what existed. Things like particle-object collision. Photoshop plugin support. After Effects plugins. Etc. The question is in this age of freeware (Blender, Anim8or, etc.) can Carrara compete? Looking at Blender for instance, feature wise Blender blows Carrara out of the water. Some features exist in Blender that even the so called "highend" software doesn't have built in. I'm curious what others think will happen to the market as software like Blender become larger and more popular? I have even considered switching to Blender and attempting to learn it. You can't beat the price: Free. I think in this day and age its not features anymore that determine the popularity of a program. It used to be what program had what feature determined which program people purchased. But now it seems that software on all levels...highend to midrange contain similar features. Its easy of use and workflow that will win the day now. Personally I'd love to see Carrara mount that old Raydream horse and rise to the challenge. I look forward to others comments. Brian