Thanks for the objective reply Dale - much appreciated. I agree with you that it is a possibility that NDAs and pre-release schedules may be crippling the usual responsiveness of some E-On employees. In an ideal world, this would not stop someone from replying to let me know that they were too busy to reply in full, or under NDA or whatever...I am almost always under some sort of software NDA, but always make time to reply to concerns from potential clients, even if I can not let them know about specifics. As far as the accuracy of the statement on their website, I am afraid I disagree with you. The phrase "You will not find comparable technologies in other 3D applications!" is definitely inaccurate. If they had said "You will not find OUR technologies in other software", now that would be accurate ;) "Comparable" technologies (based on what we have been shown of them so far) do exist in other software. I will have to await release to see the exact controls that E-On consider so proprietary, but if (as I suspect) they will simply be related to material-blending (as suggested in the ecosystem videos on their site) then this sort of technology (ie: a "comparable" technology) as well as more powerful versions of this sort of thing, definitely already exist. Regards Adam