CompuServe Messages

PMJI, but since Gary seems to think so highly of having gradients in 3DS I'm kind of curious about your product. I don't really want a demo version, but I would like someone to explain to me (in real simple terms) just why I'd want such a thing. Someone posted a quote here to the effect of "it's something you can't think of what you'd do with it, but then find you can't live without it." I can certainly understand the former, but until (and unless) I understand the latter I certainly can't spend the money. And PLEASE tell me that your product doesn't require a dongle — or that I can at least network render with it (I only have two machines connected to each other — so it doesn't pay for me to spend more for a network version).