Actually I'm not surprised. I'm in the same boat as you DMM: a Lightwaver that has been drooling for a way to have a tailer-made solution for creating and rendering vast landscapes in Lightwave. So, I try to look at it this way: xFusion (where'd that "x" come from anyway... did anyone else get the memo?) is more than a plug if it works as expected. It will make your hosting app (LW for me) a completely new application. Look at what FPrime has done for LW. It could be seen as a simple plugin that that fits comfortably on a floppy disc with room to spare but it turns LW into, well, way more than LW. At least that way $500.00 doesn't hurt so much. Think of it as "Lightwave-Extreme Edition". Now, who's butt do I kiss to get on the beta tester list?