Sethren

That XSI Plugin is pretty darn impressive.

Carrara has a very nice Hair implimentation but it is buggy and still to slow but some of the functionality and features behind the tool is what is interesting but features are limited as well. ZBrush has a tool that paints fiber geometry. Some of the tech behind that tool is interesting but is limited in only creating fur as far as i know and i dont think it can be styled very much and if it could i can't imagine it being easy. I think it is called the Fiber Brush. Cinema4D had some nice looking Hair also but how easy the tools are to use and how limted i would not know. I never owned the program.

What about implimenting Ram Compression technology. I have heard it was used for creating the CG effects in Transformers to get the frame rate renders pushed out faster but i wonder if it would be useful for 3d-brush. I don't know anything about the technology, only hearing about it but i have found some information on it. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=250012&dl= http://ask.metafilter.com/22691/What-happe...RAM-compression http://repos.project.cwi.nl:8080/nl/reposi...ications/11087/ http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/211806.html http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Data...M_and_CPU_Cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compression_System http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin...=1&SRETRY=0 http://db.cwi.nl/rapporten/abstract.php?abstractnr=1883

Honestly i like the look of the interface for the third one down. A darker theme seems to be easy on the eyes for a lot of people. Perhaps the default should be darker but it's my personal taste. Overall these all look interesting though.

3D-Brush would make for a heck of a plug-in for Carrara 6. That is one neat alien.