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Daniel, DW> Vistapro 3D … the best implementation ever. Only because there's not much else out there! The implementation works but it's not especially easy to use. I plan to make it friendlier in the next release — probably as simple as a single command. It will also have the ability to make 3D animations automatically. If you want to make really high quality images with Vistapro (stereo or otherwise) I recommend rendering at twice the desired image size and then using ADPro to shrink the IFF24 image down. ADPro will average together 2×2 groups of pixels and produce a nicely anti-aliased result. The images look much more "photographic". This helps 3D pairs a lot since it removes a lot of the distracting high frequency aliasing noise. On the PC I have a stand alone program called HALFTGA.EXE that performs just this shrinking/antialiasing function. This will be an automatic feature in Vistapro 4.0 (don't hold your breath, it won't ship for quite a while). I won't be going to WOCA — I don't have the time and I hardly touch the Amiga anymore anyway… I have a few pairs of glasses (So you won't hear me begging for a handout! <g>), but since you offered a disk, could you give it to Clint (at WOCA) to forward to me? Thanks, John.