Quote - Dear renderdog2000 & RobynsVeil;
Max 2009 and Maya have navigation cubes in the upper right hand corner of each of the four viewports; which when modeling in any particular viewport, make it easy topan around the object to see it from its different orthographic viewpoints.  This too would be a cool feature to include, if possible, -if not immediately then down the line. 

Another nice thing about Max is the ability to select certain items, and then press a hot key ond go into isolation mode, so that other objects in the scene can't interfere with what you're doing with it, and also you can't accidentally click on something undesired and mess it all up.

I also like about Max is the ease by which one can set up and manipulate both lights and camera's in a scene, just draw them in, and then select them to either modify with the translate/rotate/scale gizmo, or whatever.

Yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

I'm giving some serious thought to the camera and lighting system - I really dislike Posers so it probably won't be anything along those lines, but hopefully I can come up with something usable there.  I think what I really need though is a good name for this project, so far I've just been calling it "the app" but I think it's time to give this thing a name.

Considering all the wonderful warm and fuzzy supportive posts I've gotten from a few of the more vitrolic in the community I was thinking of calling it:

"Lead Balloon"

ROTFL - kidding of course.  Nope, this thing needs a name.  Any thoughts?

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...