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Terry, I've had 1 partial day with world builder and so far I'm impressed, but it's really too early to tell. We are going to _try_ to use it (in part) for a high-end Japanese commercial, so I'll be beating on it pretty severely. It seems to have immense potential and is a huge program (3mb). It'll take a lot longer to see how well it works for us in production, but we have that 30 day money-back guarantee thing from Digimation. >> Does not and probably will not be able to write to the PAR drive.<< don't know. We have a PAR and a PVR and I would never render directly to either anyway, so it's not an issue. We have plenty of disk space free (18gb and more available, if necessary). >>…only from the CD ROM. << not for us. It's running fine off the c: drive – we have diamond stealth 64 vram 4mb cards. >> Rendering a complex scene at 752×480 is a time NightMare. << Well, it seems slow with dense vegatation and lakes etc. It took 1.5 hours for a 720×480 sample image, with no anti-aliasing. But it's unlikely we would have a scene like that in real life. We're splitting the scene up into layers for compositing later. My early impressions are very favourable, but I should be able to give say more in the coming week.