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Mark, I think you've succumbed to some serious hype <g>. At MetroLight we run both SGI's (about 30+, many Indigo2's, running Wavefront, Alias, Renderman, Prisms, VS) and Intel's (16 dual Pentium 100 m/boards, 3dsr4) and 3ds is the fastest renderer we have. I believe, unless something has changed, that hardware rendering is still limited to tests and won't be useful for final rendering with the popular, industry standard, photo-realistic renderers – (mainly Renderman, Alias for raytracing). Try running Renderman, or more to the point Alias' renderer, on 1 Indigo2 and you'll know what waiting is about. If your needs don't run to Renderman quality or Alias' raytracing then maybe you've found your Holy Grail. Martin