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You need to tell the PAR to do that. If you don't, you will always get just the first frame. There are three ways to output frames from a PAR animation. "Fixed" (the default) doesn't change the frame number. You always get the first frame. "Increment" increments the frame number each time you read from the PAR. You can also set which frame will be the next frame to come out (and it will automatically increment thereafter). And lastly, "Filename". That's what you want. In this mode, the driver will extract the frame number information from the filename you give to it. From within 3D Studio, just load the DPSPAR.PXP and set "Output Mode" to "File". From the DOS prompt, just type "PARDRV /I:FILE". All this should be in the docs (I'm just guessing because I haven't read it myself <g>).