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<< I wouldn't expect the Yost Group to re-invent the wheel, so to speak, and re-write a whole new raytracer when they can be doing other, more ground-breaking things >> Valid point… << Then again, if the YG *did* include it, I'm sure it would be great stuff!<g> >> Which was my point originally 🙂 That, and the fact that 3DS users won't have to wait for it to come out, as well as paying xtra $$$ for it. Also, 3DS users could then count on a basic system of ray-tracing coherent to all. Fancier, more innovate ray-tracing features could, indeed, be left to other developers, but I would like to see some basic raytrace abilities we can all know, and all count on. As I said, with the hardware MAX will be running on, as well as the level of work 3DS projects have come to, I indeed believe its time has come. There are too many times TRUE reflections of the scene would come in handy, as well as refractions beyond what refraction mapping can do.