CompuServe Messages

I have a slight gripe with the IPAS stuff you released. Oh, it's good, and no doubt I'll purchase them all (collect them all! — number 5 in the series!), but there is something that really bothers me about this (and don't take this wrong — I think you guys, particularly Gary, are Gods for whom I am not worthy, etc, etc.) Some of the stuff, particularly the third disk, looks like it should be intregal to 3D Studio — yet the person/persons responsible for upgrading 3D are offering it. In other words, it's as if Word Perfect was written by someone who also wrote an add-in spell checker for Word Perfect — what point would WP have to include that spell checker? (As a matter of fact, there's a disincentive for you guys to include any of the IPAS routines you offer as standard 3D features). I think the concept of add-on IPAS is fine — my software product itself is very similar in offering such third party support. But I also think the trend in software is to be as fully featured as possible, and you shouldn't have to think twice about including such a feature just because you already wrote an IPAS routine that does the same thing (does this mean we'll never see defocus, or glow inside of 3D Studio, for example?).