The 3d rendering and animation package is now (and has been for a while ?) free and open source. Go to:
www.blender3d.org
Peter
Thanks for the link Peter, I checked out Blender, and I must say, the stuff some people have made with it is fantastic. That said, to get going is harder than I though with the layout not being very intuitive and having to buy the docs to get started. If these guys keep working on it, perhaps they can jazz up the interface to rival 3DS or similar. I am a total convert to the cross platform compatibility aspect, its amazing that you can work on your MAC/PC, and throw the file onto a linux box for rendering without problems. In my tests, I was getting 50-100% speed improvements, if not higher. Sid -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml