Yeah, the flag morphing was a pretty big hint.
Even so, there is a very noticeable difference between any sort of
texture/reflection mapping available in 3DS2r2 and true metallic
shading, which is just not possible with Phong shading. Hopefully,
r3 will provide true Metallic shading (and Raytracing would be nice,
also!) in addition to Wireframe, Flat, Gouraud, and Phong shadings.