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>> If someone had been using some of your IPAS routines and they're now >> without them in R3, how long will they be caught with their toolbox >> missing tools? Well, luckily for us, all of our routines work exactly the same for R3 as they did for R2. When we get the developer's kit we can enhance them, and are planning on taking advantage of the 48 bit color space available, but as of now they work identically to the way they did before. So I have no reason to take anything in this thread personally! <g> >> All too many of these things that are being sloughed off to IPAS should >> exist in the core program. But then again, you're a developer, so you >> probably disagree strongly with that point of view. Yes, I disagree strongly, but not for the reasons you think! I have been an AutoCAD user for around 10 years. Part of what made that program great is the fact that third parties can take it and customize it in ways that the programmers never imagined. Is this bad? I don't think so! Same with 3D Studio. The Yost Group has a finite number of resources, and they must program in the most important/popular features first, and work their way down the list in order. If they tried to put everything in, the release cycles would stretch to 5 years! Other people need different features to do their work. I want more character animation features, you may desire more architectural tools. If someone came out with a great tool for character animation that would make my life easier but add $500 to the program, would you want to pay the extra for your copy and never use it? Probably not. But adding these extra features in a modular manner like IPAS allows me to purchase the ones I need, and you just get the ones you need. It saves both of us money, and gets new releases out that much sooner. >> Greg, I'm a one man operation, who's got to fight tooth and nail for the >> limited work available to me. Wel, Roger, I'm an 18 person operation, and I still fight tooth and nail for every job, also! And believe me, a slow month for me hurts just as much if not more than a slow month for you! Bigger just means that you can go through money much faster! Calculate out my monthly overhead! It'll scare you! <g>