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>>I just saw a demo of topas pro 5.0 and<< >> they have a couple great new features<< One other neat little feature on that program (I'm sure you've seen this, probably a long time before I did, but anyway…) is the ability to create some fairly good fake refractions. The technique, as I saw it described, was to create a cubic environment map around the refractive object, and then just bend the eye-ray into this map as it exits the refractive object. Not perfect, but close enough… Maybe this could be simulated by 3DS now, but I bet it takes a lot of steps! Jim