Well I was finally able to take this new app for a test drive and I must say I'm a little disappointed with Carrara Studio. The interface, while better structured than Ray Dream is a bit more cumbersome and less versatile. There are times when selecting and manipulating objects in Assembly becomes a real pain in the ass. Especially with the production frame which I haven't sucessfully been able to move or resize with ease. I do enjoy the new features like Global Lumination Caustics and Bones. And the rendering time is so much faster than RDS. However I can do without them for something that can at least run smooth on my 500mhz G3 with OS9 (even with Open GL). Not to mention the app seems to butcher any old RDS files I import over. Maybe I need more time to work around with the app, but I think I'll stick to the old and orphaned Ray Dream Studio for most of my modeling needs for the time being.