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Erik, unfortunately, LW 3.0 is significantly slower than 3D Studio and slightly slower than Imagine. In the past few months, I have been heavily involved in the creation of a new product for all three platforms called the VRS Media Master Designers' Objects Series. Each scene we rendered is quite large (at least 8 Megs) and requires reflection, shadows, etc. A scene which might require several HOURS in Lightwave (with raytracing) could be produced in UNDER 5 MINUTES on 3D Studio. Imagine tracing came in at about 45 minutes. If you use shadow mapping and reflection maps (which is all 3D Studio does, anyhow), Lightwave is still significantly slower, coming in at somewhere around 15 minutes. If you'd like, I can prepare a more detailed posting of our findings. The machines we used were an A2000 with 28 Mhz 040 and 18 megs of RAM and a 486/33 with 16 megs.