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I would have to disagree with your disappointment in the 3.5 update. Although it is not as big in terms of new features added as previous upgrades, it continues to become a more functional and elegant animation environment. The metaform tool is quite powerful. I've been able to come up with dozens of uses for it. Modeling a hand, cars, faces, etc., is now easier. I've worked extensively with Metaball modelers on the SGI platform, and almost prefer the approach taken here. As far as trouble with your WaveMaker scene files is concerned, there was a change in the scene file format with this version. We had trouble with Dynamic Motion Module scenes loading until we crunched out a quick upgrade (1.07). It is likely that a text editor could be used to change the problamatic part of the scene file. My guess is that the references to Null Objects has changed. I could be wrong. LightWave continues to be both powerful and easy to use.