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Andrew: Current on the agenda for 3.1 is reflective water, DXF output, direct support of Opalvision, Picasso, Retina and EGS (though I am not yet certain that I will get all of those boards working properly in that timeframe) as well as an overall rendering speedup from porting from Manx C to SAS C. (Speedup varies from 10% – 30% depending on processor and particular image rendered.) Plus a few other features like a cloudmap display on the cloud control panel, priority control to make multitasking more friendly as well as general attempts to make VP easier to use. I am setting things up so that updating to 3.1 and then to 4.0 will cost the same as upgrading from 3.0 to 4.0, you'll just pay half in two installments instead of all in one. <grin> So there will be no benefit in delaying upgrading. I will attempt to send out a mailer to all registered VP users, however that may be beyond my budgetary capabilities. <sigh> I will announce the release here on CIS. Right now I have a summer mailer (VRLI Times), but I have so far only been able to send it to 7500 registered users, which is about half of the list. I do have a stack which I have set aside to send people who specifically request one, so if you would like one and haven't already received one (dated July 1995), email your mailing address and I will put it in the mail. (The VRLI database seems rather out of date, around 20% of the people on it have moved since VRLI's last updating.) Clint <Chaocity>