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G'day Kevin, If you want chrome robots in 3DS a-la the Minds Eye…We've done PLENTY of 'em. Just as shiny, and chromy and whatever you want to call it… 3DS can do chrome as good as anyone else. Freezeframe the Minds eye section (If you have a laserdisk it is clearer) and take a look at the 'chrome' robots and dino's. They are mostly white with stuff reflected in them. What is reflected is what's important, there is no such thing as a standard 'Great' chrome material, and you can take this from an ex SoftImage and Alias user. The materials editor in 3DS is VASTLY superior to any I have used on ANY SGI package bar none. And Yup! Chrome looks just as good in 3DS as anything else. Spend more time with the materials, and more importantly your reflection maps. A piece of chrome sitting in space is… BLACK. Sitting in a room, it is a distorted version of the room and light high-lights. We have done fantastic glass and chrome many times with 3DS. It just takes some work, just as it does with the SGI software. regards, Peter -Pete