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First thing, Roy, please voice your opinions on the GVP Imact board! I, for one, am eagerly awaiting news from 'real' people about this board. Thanks. When you say that none of the 3D software uses 24bit animation, I assume you mean real-time? You can certainly use the 24bit images in a single-frame video recording environment, if you have the big $$$$ to afford such equipment. The only 'pseudo-24bit' boards that currently allow real-time animation are the HAM-E device (Black Belt Systems) and the DCTV (Digital Creations)…. So, if you want to create amiga real-time anims, you'll be forced to convert your 24bit images down to standard amiga resolutions (HAM, 32color, 16color, etc) and just do regular anims with them. A bit of a downer, when you really *want* 24bit animations! (I know, I use the FireCracker24 board, and cannot animation on it real-time either) A thought though…. I have had great success putting backgrounds in full 24bit resolution on the FireCracker24, and then playing live amiga-res animations over the top of it. Recording that. Because the background is the full hires-24bit resolution, doing the foreground is in lower color isn't nearly as noticable. Looks pretty good! (note: the FireCracker24 allows overlaying the amiga RGB out over the top of it's 24bit buffer image…. if the GVP board allows the same thing, then you could do above also) A side benefit of this method is that since the background (often complicated) is removed from the amiga animation, the resulting anim is often faster and shorter. A nice benefit. Re Caligari vs. Imagine, since I haven't used Caligari I can't say much. Imagine will certainly generate 24bit IFF files, which I suppose could be used with the GVP board? (would certainly hope so!) But it wouldn't automatically output to that board (nor will it automatically output to the FireCracker24 🙁 ) So, if Caligari meets your needs for 3D rendering, I'd probably stick with that. After you get more involved with [ MORE ]