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Thanks for your response. I talked to Ralf Brugger (Basel, do you know him?) and he told me that Autodesk spent a lot of time and manpower trying to convert 3ds files to be rendered by RenderMan. But this seems to be too difficult, especially lights couldn't be converted accordingly. So Autodesk "gave up" this project. Can you confirm this information? I think many users of 3D-Studio would like to render frames on other platforms as even a pentium has enough power to render certain things like shadows and reflections fast enough. Some of my animations took one hour per frame. I hope that 3D-Studio will be converted to at least Windows NT. As only OSF/Motif is available for Alpha Workstations (not PCs) this won't help me, but it would be one step to use other systems having more power than a PC. Can you tell me if 3D-Studio (or at least it's renderer) will be ported to any other platform / operating system?