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I'd like to second a few points there if i may… I, too, was made a *very* happy person by DP II for the IBM (my first *real* paint program, after much icky-work with Dr. Halo III) and I'd like to see both A) and B) of the wishlist suggestions… I'm not sure if I've worked with 3ds enough yet to have developed opinions on any other wishes, but here are a few (eensie-teensie) of my own: C) if not raytracing built-in (which I wouldn't ask you to do :>), how about export/import to/from some de facto 'standard' formats… i realize 3ds2pov exists, but at this point (perhaps a limitation of the fact that it uses the asc format to export from), it only supports triangles (it supports them very well, by the way…) It'd be nice if things that 3ds renders as tris but treats as actual primitives internally (spheres, tubes, cubes, etc) could be preserved for those tracers that support them. this would also facilitate tracing of images with complex surface maps, etc., which 3ds2pov and the like don't currently export (they export the geometry, and *some* texture info, but not enough for Babylon 5 quality rendering :> ) and furthermore (sounding like a politician, yet? good. :>) it would allow those of us who have access to many non-IBM machines on a network (ie: UNIX boxes, MACs and the like) to network render (compile the source for the ray-tracer of choice, and voila!) tripp 'if you don''t do it, i will (as soon as i get around to it, which might take years' lilley