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Steven, I'm sure you'll like the 3.1 version of Vistapro. But don't expect to render a DXF landscape in 3DS and get results like Vistapro's. About the best you can get out of 3DS will be similar to Vistapro at Polygon Size 1 with no texture. The DXF files don't contain the fractal detail that Vistapro generates while rendering. Even so, a small Vistapro landscape at full detail is a 13MB DXF file (130,000 polygons). 3DS gets very sluggish when working with that amount of data. A Vistapro landscape with all the fractal detail would be many gigabytes as a DXF file. Of even more importance is the program VUE2SCR.EXE which is included with the CD-ROM. It translates 3DS VUE scripts into Vistapro format. This gives you the ability to create a series of Vistapro images that are synchronized with 3DS's camera. You can then use those images as backgrounds in 3DS. John.