> Let me know if they have made scene setup improvements to 401. I have been holding off on upgrading because it has been a bit of a pain for me to setup quick renders and have them look decent. Thanks.

The new version is really great for this. I just got MoI this week-end (after getting my modo 401 upgrade on Friday), and I've been having a blast creating "doodles" in MoI while I learn the tool set, exporting them into Modo, then setting up a quick test render. I think I did a total of seven complete "scenes" yesterday. One of the things I did is create a separate custom stand-alone window/layout in modo containing just a preview view and the preset browser view. Then I can quickly import a new MoI model and set up a test scene just by dragging and dropping materials and environments right from the presets into the preview. Slick! This works really well with MoI 2.0's new ability to create surface groups...

Dave Morrill