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Greeting, I purchased Anim. Master nearly a year ago at the Mac Expo in S.F. CA. I loved the kinematics and I loved the tools. I started building the parts that I would use in some animation projects that I had lined up. I quickly found the Amin Master had some sever problems dealing with lighting and shadowing. I built a simple test that demonstrated the problems. I was told that the problems would be fixed and I would be recieving an interim fix release. Months went by. The Hash BBS was oftern off-line and when it was on-line I'd be fixed if I could get anyone to respone. In all fairness, I seems to have caught Randy during month long vacation. When I did finally get the update and was assured that the problems were found and fixed. They (?) even indicated that they ran the fixes against my demo files and found no problems. Unfortunately, when I did get to re-render my animation and the demo I found that the problems remained. I really like Anaim Master and appreciate the following but I have two questions: 1. Where there any real fixes applied to the lighting and shadowing sections of the rendered? 2. Am I the only one doing aniumation with complex lighting? Most fo the images I've see posted don't look like they're using light to achive interesting shadow cast effects. I'd get any Anim Master updates and/or upgrade but only if I could verify that the problems I've experienced have been fixed. Thanx, _Marc