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Hi Martin, I am an employee of Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM. While searching some of the topics on the Multimedia Forum, I discovered that you are a man of much insight and highly regarded for your advice. Well…. I need some advice. We are interested in creating some 3D animation to demonstrate the utility of a 3D virtual environment for quick data visualization. We have purchased some dual pentium machines and plan to load and operate the windows NT 'server' operating system. The problem we have encountered is that 3D classic is designed for DOS, and DOS will not take advantage of the dual processing power of our machines. On the other hand, we are very excited about 3D Studio MAX which runs under the NT system and will take full advantage of our dual processors. However, we do not feel we can wait until January or February ( tentative dates of the distribution of 3D Studio MAX) to begin on our project. We would like to know if the animations created under 3D Studio classic will directly port over to 3D studio MAX. If not, do you know of another 3D animation tool that will provide the capabilities of 3D Studio that currently runs under the NT environment? By the way, does 3D Studio MAX follow the Open Graphics Library (OGL) standard? Any information you can give will be greatly appreciated! P.S. I know 3D Studio MAX is still in Beta testing and not much information is released to the public, but I thought I would throw these questions your way just in case some information has trickled down to you. Thanks WM