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<Hey, that might work…I hope you haven't left another message after this one that says it didn't! :}> Nope, I won't tell you that it didn't work yet, I haven't had time to try it yet! My machine is tied up rendering for the next few days, and I just finished a rush slide show type video project that took up the last few days. The presentation of the video was going great, until it ended abruptly…I forgot that I had started editing the video, then gave up and started again later on the tape…so when I rewound the tape all the way, it just ended after the first chapter…yikes! All was forgiven when it started up again, luckily it was just a graduation party, and not a big seminar or other business setting. Everybody went "Awww" when the video got interupted, and they applauded at the end, so I guess it was ok. <Another trick might be to space the verts apart, and save them as one obj! Then, load a bone on each one and try to pull them together…hmmm, but that would be a big pain!> Yup, might be a pain, luckily, I think we are narrowing down the amount of animation we will include in the project. I'll also fake some things out with a paint program, instead of rendering so many frames. Trying to keep it simple…like occasionaly replacing the word "animation" with "graphic" in the script. <I hope the bones become a part of modeler! Then, you could name points as you do a surface. Then, only the bones with that name pull on the points with that name! Geeze, that would fix a lot of problems!> That would be great! To be able to SEE and CONTROL the points affected in some way. I'm looking forward to it…someday. By the way, I got T-REXX Pro and used it for the Slide Show Video. Worked out great…and the new version controls the PAR. I guess I'll be studying AREXX, eh? I would never have been able to accomplish what I did without T-REXX. Recorded the video and audio portions of each section in one pass! Now I just need SVHS in and out of my Toaster, the Sunrize Board, a new editing deck, a Raptor…. <Let me know how it goes!> Will do! DSM