Katherine had the flu and was out for a while; she should be catching up, though. But it was quite a pile of people trying to order and not getting through DigitalRiver's system... a lot to catch up on. I'd suggest IMs rather than emails. She did say that everyone would be taken care of.

After Katherine got back to me, the order went smoothly.

It is too good a deal to pass up. Lighting makes or breaks a scene (just that alone would persuade me) so the new rendering features are a bonus. For someone else, the new figures or OpenGL might be the tipping point, but if they render in another program the lights would be unimportant. They've revealed more new features than I thought there'd be and they haven't listed all the features (6 more days?) I haven't played with Shade yet (ordered boxed software to answer your question on that), but what I've seen created in it is pretty impressive. One thing which is amusing... so far I've seen 3 or 4 different possible box art.

Carolly

Message edited on: 03/05/2005 06:03