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Steve, Man are you gonna be in for an overload. <g> Actually, since you are upgrading from LT it won't be as big an overload as it would be if you were upgrading from 2.0! <g> Although texture/image tacking, states, and bones, 100+ textures, 12+ special effects, etc. are gonna open up a new area for ya. Heck, SHREDDER.IFX should keep ya real busy. It's a killer effect…think of it as being able to explode an object into random shaped pieces, or even predefined shaped pieces, have them bounce, tumble, and even have wind affect them. Yep…3.3 should ship end of this month. >> am used to "seeing" animations in graphical/visual layouts. Can you use Imagine to, for-instance, make a spline line and watch a ball follow it? << Yes you can, you can either make a spline path in the detail editor, and then load it into the ACTION/STAGE editors so an object can follow it, or you can create a spline path directly in the stage editor and then tell an object to follow it over a given number of frames. Once you set up your anim parameters, you can make a quick perspective view anim in wireframe/solid modes to preview it. Basically, first add the path object, then add the object that's to follow that path. DELETE the position bar of the object. Now ADD a new position bar for the object and select FOLLOW PATH, entering the name of the path object. If you need more detailed help on how to set up a path and have an object follow it let me know. >> What's new for 3.3? Is that the one with the graphical material editor? Ummm, errr, did I say that? <g> -GreG