We all are hoping for these things...I am sure they are coming. Eovia at least has a fairly short dev cycle for commercial sw.Between the rendering and sort of all-in-one tools carrara still comes in very handy. BTW opera guy. There is a wishlist located at the yahoo list and I am sure an address to submit these...maybe on the site. Letting them know what you want is important.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.