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We are using a TARGA based ray traced system, and have recently gotten an Amiga I've played around with Videoscape 3D and Sculpt animate and I got to admit I'm not impressed. Although the demo's look great, I can't figure out how any one created them. The user interface for Videoscape sucks period. Sculpt is a close second place. I just got 3 Demon, hoping for an improvement, and although there are a couple of bells and whistles, I'm limited to a handfull of colors. We want to accurately build models in 3D and render them with as many colors as possible. Real time animation is a plus, but we will probably limit it to 50 to 100 frames and edit. I'm interested in TSilver and saw the dolphin demo (very nice), but am concerned as to whether it will meet our needs Incidently, I've tried porting the TARGA 32k color files over to the Amiga after converting to GIF. It works, but HAM mode has its quirks. Edges of images seem to break up? I use a Targa to GIF conversion program, null mod it to the amiga, use HAMGIF and SAVEIFF to get it into PhotonPaint or the Director. The images created by our software on the Targa blow away any thing I've seen so far on the Amiga, and the 3D creation stage is much easier. Because of the poor quality of HAM, we can't even use the amiga for display only. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. I would like to find some reason to keep the Amiga. Bottom line, I would like near Targa quality images and a clean, accurate 3D model creation program…..is it possible?