@orange Brat -that's good news about anti-aliasing being added. Thanks for the info

Yes Newton really is that much better than ODE -it has better important features now such as swept collisions and updates with greater software performance to equal Ageia/Havok are coming, as well as support for hardware acceleration on GPUs and mult-threading in the future. ODE is no longer competitive with latest Newton/Ageia/Havok and is unlikely to ever catch-up.

As for Gile[s], imo Conitec shouldn't waste time trying to re-invent the wheel. Quite frankly I think it would take ages for them to match the visual quality/features of gile[s] as I've not seen a light mapper as good as it outside of the AAA engines.