Hi Mike,

I'm sorry that you bought the magazine only to see that export to 3ds or obj formats is "greyed out". Please accept my apologies. I had wrong information about this free release of Xfrog, so my annoucement was inaccurate.
We had so many "true" free softwares in magazines lately (Poser 3, Vue 2, Amapi 4, Truespace 1, Cinema 4D 5, etc...), that I never suspected that this version of Xfrog didn't include export to "polygon" formats.

Pete, the plugin system is not "odd" at all. It allows the host software to recognize directly the Xfrog format instead of using the awful obj/3ds/dxf import formats. It's the most efficient way of using 2 softwares (VUE 4 recognize the pz3 format with this system). Files are small and imported "intact" in the host application. Xfrog procedural models have an approximate size of 5 to 15 Kb, so the resulting size is not "too big"...

:) Eric