hey philip
I'm a new comer to your forum(i don't know ,maybe i disturbe your conversations)
anyway,it seems that you know lightwave well,
i have some quastions if you would like answer them:
-did you worked with renderman in lightwave
and if you not ,can you compare it with mentalray?
_which of them is more suited with maya,renderman or mentalray?
-have you heard of JIG how is it?