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I agree with you on many points. One of the most difficult and time consuming aspects of using 3ds is setting up mapping coord and smoothing groups. I feel both of these could use improvement. I had Quicktime, AVI, and PICT on my rel 2 wishlist. The FLx file format has no official support for sound and simply does not understand the concept of time. This makes it worthless for certain applications. I also use both platforms. I have my macs and my pcs wired together via novell. I'm pushing the 3DS guys for a portable renderer so that I can do network rendering on the PowerPC and SMP rendering under NT. Welcome onboard w/ 3ds.