With iClone 7 winding down. There are a few features that, unless proven otherwise, iClone 8 MUST have in order for it to be a worth while upgrade.

Updated vegetation system:
- reworking the grass to work properly with the new render features. Option to prevent grass from rotating.
- scatter tool.
- proper vegetation painting and not the click method used now.
- replaced or revamped speed tree system with support for custom trees.

Performance:
- Proper LOD settings/support so that larger scenes can be created and worked in without horrible performance with an option to disabled LOD switching upon render.
- RTX integration so that we can have a middle ground between iray and the standard render.

Other significant features:
- individual channel rendering support. Not dependant on iray rendering. For example, rendering just the depth map.
- popcornfx support in iray.