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Hi John! The idea of plug-in-shaders is not very new but I don`t know much programs with this feature. Renderman and Mental Ray are good examples and I`m sure that 3DS will be an other. As soon as 3DS has an open rendering interface, we`ll might see three products from us: RayMan (for raytracing), furman (<g> for hair and fur) and cloudman (for any kind of real clouds). RayMan (specially Release 2) is already prepared for this kind of plug-ins and the other two shaders, well I don`t want to say too much but I'm sure we`ll surprise the 3DS community. We have to wait for the new Windows NT version… BTW: you can fake plug in shaders with the video post queue but that`s not as perfect as I want to have. Michael