hi,
thanks for the heads up nichod..
maxwell is painfully slow... but for a single photo real image...

but are there particles in maxwell....??
animation id leave to something like xsi's mental ray...
ive been playing with maxwell and 3ds demo and is looking really great... so easy to setup a great render... but i guess not a lot that cant be done in mental ray... tho its early days... i do appreciate your views...
EIAS...nice arch viz again... some other stuff there but nothing i havent seen in other apps... (i mean that in a nice way)...
what a bout fryrender... lookin cool... any experience with this.. i know its new..
wih modo 301 soon out, things are looking better... i love the render quality of modo, and now with basic animation coming...
im still not sure about EIAS... the demo left me cold.. the interface was not condusive to my creation pathway.. I do appreciate it seems to have a great render engine...what is the future of EIAS...and no modelling (tho i use hex and silo and soon xsi FND and not forgetting carrara...)
just a few thoughts...
thanks for you input...