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Thanks for the informative reply. I feel that Imagine may be the most full featured of the bunch, but I still think that the user interface leaves something to be desired. I especially hate the attributes dialog box (in 2.0 at least, if you uncheck one of the parameters it does not remove the attribute from the rendering – it just disables the editing of it- or am I missing something? — Also hate the RGB control of things like bump maps and hardness, which is very counterintuative). Hitting enter after everything drives me nuts. Also have to use a boot disk to load this program, which is a drag. There is also not a icon in sight. Being DOS based, I'm also concerned about future compatibility with Windows 4.0. The 2.0 program that I have also did not work correctly for a variety of functions (at least not the way they were described in the 3D modeling lab book that accompanied it). But the action editor's little colored boxes may be the worst part of the interface. Eeeaak…. However, feature for feature, it definately appears to be at the top of it's class for most things (especially in a side by side comparison like in this month's Multimedia magazine). One final point, do you have any comments on the disadvantages of purely spline based modeling of programs like Animation Master? Can Imagine also model using spline instead of polygons? Any comments on the above would be appreciated. Regards, Tony