CompuServe Messages

I am ASSumming you have Aladdin 4D: How much does it slow down rendering when you add a gas object? I was told by some that use it that it does slow it down but they couldn't tell me how much. I was also told that you couldn't go `thru' a gas object, they have to wait till next version. Does it have other kind of procedural textures that can add turbulance? I am a Imagine user and was going to buy Aladdin but I am going to wait a while (Imagine 3.0) before I buy anything else (if I do). <<< Tony D. Tracer >>>