"The fact that something as necessary and simple as tiling still has not been made a standard surface feature leads me to believe they still see little value in increasing the ability for content creators to have better cross compatability with Poser (as an example) . Unless I am wrong and they do suddenly unveil easier to use advanced surfaces that include many of the more simple to use surface settings that are standard in Poser there will be no more interest by content creators to include settings for studio or create content especially for Studio"

Khory,

I hope you noticed that tiling is now a standard surface feature in DS 3? And it's fully implemented in the viewport, which is quite cool.

I'd say that anyone who doesn't want to pay for DS is still getting a good deal with the free version. A lot of new things have been implemented, including a 64-bit version, and the difference in render speed alone is pretty spectacular. I'm getting render times which are 30-50% faster.

mac