msoucie said:I hear you. I like real 3D a lot better too,... but until Microsoft adds real 3D support to Silverlight, faking is at least and alternative.
Cheers,
Mike
Quick Update:
Next version of Silverlight will, according to Scott Guthrie: " ... include 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration".
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx
For now a 3D graphics engine for Silverlight 2 is available for free at Codeplex:
http://www.codeplex.com/Kit3D
It appears that its creators have taken pains to match the System.Windows.Media.Media3D namespace in WPF so that presumably, migration to Silverlight 3 will be as painless as can reasonably be expected.
Also note that the "Suzanne" demo provided at the Kit3D Codeplex site was rendered using Blender and MakeHuman. There furthermore appears to be a free XAML exporter for Blender also available at Codeplex:
http://www.codeplex.com/xamlexporter
Not sure how well all this will work in concert but it’s a good start. As for XAM3D, seems like it might be an awesome product for some basic 3D rendering but 1) might be a good idea to get a trial version out there so that some alternative and/or preliminary
development paths might be explored 2) Electric Rain may want to do some exploring or they may find themselves SOL because 3) "flipbook" just isn’t going to cut it in Silverlight or XBAP going forward.
Hope this helps 
