wow it has been a while since I wrote on here.
Well here are some of my ideas.
Most of them are from things that I have seen out there on freeware. (Openfx and runevision)

I was impressed with Runevisions demos that work in POVray.  Using particles. To simulate fire, water flowing, and he has some neat things like lip sinc, etc.

Also the cloth draping and gravity effects in Openfx are impressive.  

I really like the way you are working on improving the modeling speed though.  I was impressed with how fast smoothing is.  

I don't how possible it is to add a walking script but that sure would help with character animation.

Thanks for listening.
Ken