I have a program that came bundled with CorelDraw 7 which I got a few years ago called CorelDream 3D 7. Does anyone know if this is the same program as Raydream and if so, what the version would be in Raydream? Thanks, Sesh

heyas; i always tried to figure out what the deal was between ray dream and corel. they wouldn't tell me. :) last i recall, corel 5... or 6... had corel dream 3d, which was ray dream 3... or 4. but not ray dream studio. at that time, ray dream sorta split into ray dream designer, which was the same 3d modelling app it had always been, and ray dream studio, which also had animating things and some other extras. not long after that, ray dream sold rdd/rds to metacreations. yet corel still had a version. was the new corel version updated from 3 to 4 (or 4 to 5) concurrently with ray dream's update? i don't know; i haven't seen the corel dreams. (i quit upgrading at corel 5.) so.... yes, corel dream 3d is ray dream designer, or at least closely related. they are not exact. they may have diverged even more as time went on. but you can always try the ray dream tutorials in corel dream. :) and i happen to LIKE ray dream's interface. okay, maybe it's not pretty, but it is functional. (unlike some kai-ish interfaces i can think of.. ::cough cough:: ;) )

Corel Dream 3D is identical to RayDream 3D with the following exception: no animation capability. It's a 3D modeller and scene arranger that's very much like RayDream Studio 5.5 without the mesh form modeller or deformers. I used RD3D for a year or so before I got RDS and found it to be a very powerful package. If you're not planning on doing animation, Corel Dream is very effective.

Thanks gang for the info. Played with it when I first got it and forgot I had it until I recently got interested in 3D modeling and bought Cinema4D Go on impulse. Now that I found CorelDream again, I find it could do all the basic things I wanted to do with it so the $ I plunked down on Cinema could have been saved. I guess the moral of this story is you should always check your own backyard before looking over the fence. Anyway, I was just curious because of the "dream" connection between the two. Looks like the basic software has been kicked around a lot but looks like the core is a survivor. Thanks all for replying and the encouragement. Sesh