@mark111 Just to be clear, I wasn't taking a pop at you, and I can appreciate your intended way of doing things. I was just explaining how I could understand how some would be upset (or worse) if they paid for a product (yours or anyone else's) which was free elsewhere. Priority updates and the like would certainly be a different matter when offering the same product as payware. Equally, I can see the reasons you've abandoned those plans. Your loss is definitely everyone's gain and I'm sure most people appreciate that.

one thing is for sure, this would have gone nowhere without the suggestions from the community, at one point v6.x it was getting so bogged down in performance until somebody pointed out the mesh, and then everything changed when i found the disseminate modifier and then shade smooth normals. i now always have efficiency in mind, completely different mindset.