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Wayne, Thanks, point taken, there will probably always be a spectrum of animation platforms and softwares from the low to high end. I got a chance to talk to someone in a contract design firm that does work for the auto industry. They are trying to bring some (or all) of the prototype work into the computer and are using the Wavefronts, Alias, etc… This would allow them to examine the car visually for design flaws before building the prototype. With a significant leap you could see these firms interfacing the animation software with the structural design software and animate a realistic crash test on a virtual car. Maybe, that gets pretty messy, might be cheaper to slam a prototype into a wall. Anyway there will probably alway be things like this pushing the envelope with the result that there will always be top tier animation progs with exotic expensive features. Bruce