At half the price? Not anymore! Carrara 4 has increased their price form version 3 to 4 by almost 50%! Couple that with the the Big Boys tools lower their prices and SoftImage XSI reduced by 75%. What you have is Carrara costing more that the Big Boys. And to get the funtions and tools like the Big Boys your into spending big $$$ on geting multiple plug-ins that should have been included in the base product. (Replicate, a standard feature in Lightwave).