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Peter, there is not a whole lot of overlap between them. POV-Ray is a freeware raytracing package, 3D Studio is a (quite expensive) modeling, animation & rendering package. POV-Ray uses text files that describe the "world" to be rendered for input, 3DS has a built in wireframe modeler and can import other wireframe formats. 3DS is also not a raytracer, it uses various forms of mapping etc to create images. Raytracing has a distict advantage in the simulation of refraction, reflection & to a certain extent shadows, it is, howerver, significantly slower than the 3DS rendering methods. (Raytracing in general that is, not just POV-Ray…) There are some shareware modelers for POV-Ray popping up now though so it will get somewhat easier to create images. Later — Bill There are 2 Replies. Read action !