ghonma, excellent suggestion.

Like I said, I am in "testing the boundaries" mode. Who knows, I may decide we do need to render elsewhere for some things. Porting (via polytrans) to XSI is a probably a decent option,  available and familiar to us. I like Lightwave's rendering engine, also.

 What rendering app would you (all) recommend?
maybe I should start a new thread with this question.

Whatever app it is, chances are very good we already own copies :)