if anyone is interested i have a few vid tutorials for d/l from my site
http://www.black-and-white-to-color.com/ipbsfx/
My name there is SFX
The tuts are very basic, a getting started one ( aimed at other app users who want to use TG inside their main app), a TG to C4D one and a tutorial for pyrocluster clouds that uses a TG terrain and animation
If anyone has any tuts for other apps intergration they would be welcome, as would any tuts in fact !!!
Great though TG2 may be it istill is not really viable to animate with, in fact static renders are even a bit too slow for most of us and i think .9x has a lot of life left in it
I have some tutorials on my site for people also:
http://slhs.net:16080/~slam/tutorials.html
Tony
Just to show that .9x and a good 3d package can do some neat stuff
http://www.black-and-white-to-color.com/stuff/newclouds.mov
So if TG2 render times are killing you TG 9.x is still your friend