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Judy, >> I think the SGI they have is INDIGO << the desktop SGI machine people seem to salivate over is the Indigo 2 Extreme. I was talking to a very knowledgeable Virgin senior management person today who's familiar with 3ds, Alias, and Lightwave. He was estimating you'd get roughly 7 Pentium equipped 3d Studio seats to 1 Alias seat. Those kind of economies can't be ignored and he seems to see a rosy future for 3ds with more competition from Lightwave than anything else, although Lightwave doesn't have the advantage of a huge installed base and a great open architecture. >> My own thoughts are that inanimate object and certain animate objects can be made to look equally good on ALias and 3DS. I suspect that Alias may do a better job with hair and fur << agreed. 3ds just doesn't have hair/fur – although it could if someone set their mind to it. Actually "scatter.pxp" might be modified to do a pretty good hair-do, although it wouldn't have the dynamics.