Attached Link: http://www.artofillusion.org/

Yes, I assumed/hoped they were using something other than Java but as I said, AoI does impress me. Mind you my modeling skills and concepts are pretty much the 3D equivalent of "hello world," so I can't really judge. Take a llok at it. I'd be interested in how someone with more modeling experience compares it with say Wingz or Anim8tor. It has subdivision surfaces, procedural textures, photon mapping, bones, animation camera filters and a slew of other stuff I don't really use or understand. I think one limitation is that someone here tried doing Vicky morphs with it and it turned out to be something about quads or polygons with too many sides or some such. Of course, just today, someone was telling me thay had problems with Vicky's hip in Rhino for similar sounding reasons. Should be great for making props - for those who have the skill. Win4Lin sounds like they did a good job. Jeeze, I haven't heard SCOMerge in many a tear. Never used it or SCO but read about them. I've got VMWare which I can use to run Linux on Win2K. I played with the SuSe they provided. Never could get the internet working thoug admitedly I didn't try very long. After a few untar's and various other assorted command line madness just to get up and running or install a program, my enthusiasm waned.

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