Warning......Extremely frustrated individual about to go on a rant. Now let me see if I understand all this. MetaCreations comes out with Ray Dream Studio, a program that is so filled with bugs it is almost useless. They then go out of business and the program is sold off to another company. This company then upgrades the program so it works better but you have to dish out another $100.00 or so to get your hands on it. Do I have my information correct? If so that has got to be the cheesiest thing I have ever come across from a consumers point of view. RDS cost enough to begin with, and though I have had the program for over a year, I have only recently sat down and started learning the program earnestly. But the more I use it, the more I find wrong with it. Certain commands lock the program up. There are times when just opening one of the menu bars sends it into one of its tiffs. In short I spend about three times longer fighting with getting the program unstuck than I do actually using it. Seems to me that a company who gives any concerns to their own reputation would never release a product so flawed. I have been told that RDS does not exist anymore in the format I have, which is Metacreations RayDream Studio 5.5. I guess it's now been incorporated into this upgrade that cost more of your dollars. But from my humble point of view, to anyone searching for a 3-D package, I would stay well clear of RDS.