I spoke with Strata yesterday and they told me that it will be 6 weeks to the release of the new pro version. Apparently not many new things (stereoscopic images etc), but loads of bug fixes and all of the extentions that they now sell seperately will be rolled in. Couldn't get them to commit as to when .OBJ format will be supported but I got the impression that they were working on it and having a hard time. I really think they should sit down with Creative Labs and support .cr2 It would rock to get Vicky and her textures into the SSP rendering engine. Not to mention all the additional controls their materials editor provides. Sigh we can but wish. But I would say if enuf of us nagged them they might take another shot at it. jje