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Ah, okay, I guess that makes sense. So the BXPs are loaded at startup time and automatically activate if a file of their given extension is to be loaded or saved? That doesn't quite jibe with the 3DSr3 demonstration I saw at your SIGGRAPH booth, though. I clearly remember the demonstrator loading bitmaps as various maps in the new Materials Editor, and seeing all the usual File Type buttons in the dialog box (.GIF, .CEL, .TGA, .TIF, .FL?, and now .BMP and .JPG as well). From what you say, those buttons should not have been there. I thought .BXPs would show up as their own buttons — for instance, if you had an AVI.BXP in your PROCESS directory when starting 3DSr3, and you selected any command that would ask to load or save a bitmap (Materials Editor maps/masks, Video Post, etc.), you would simply see an ".AVI" button alongside all the others that are normally there. Clicking it would show only matching .AVI files, and you could select an .AVI file and load it as usual. I guess I was wrong. I was hoping that maybe it was set up so that right-clicking on any of the file type buttons, regardless of whether it was a built-in or .BXP file type, would, if the type supported it, pop up a dialog box that lets the user specify certain options (especially on saving, but I could also see this being useful on loading) such as various types of compression for TIFs, etc.