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As John said, the 3DS/SGI deal is renderer-slave ONLY. That's it.
Re smooth joints… Our new skinning IPAS3 routine actually does smooth joints
beautifully. You don't get the cute FFD boxes around each joint, but you can
do great muscle effects by animating the joint cross-sections, and the skin
looks perfect.
Re perspective alignment… although not ideal, the 3-shade proxy view is
certainly usable for aligning geometry to the background. I'm sure we'll expand
the color palette in the next version, however.
– G