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I beleive I know the one you're reffering to (Bicep.zip) and that's exactly how it works. Without something like FLEX, animating the muscle scaling for an entire character over the course of entire piece can really get out of hand. With FLEX, simply create the muscle boxes, and link them to the bones they need to move with (not neccessarily the bones that will control them). Then get into FLEX and create a muscle to bone connection. This link allows the scaling of the muscle (in all axises) to be controlled by the rotation of the bone you've connected it to. It may take a little time to set up and test, but once you have all the muscles and bones set up, save the data out to a file. Then you can go about animating the bones as you normally would (forget the muscles for now). Once you've finished animaing a scene, run FLEX again, load the file, and apply it to the scene. It will calculate the scaling, or flex, of all muscles for the entire scene. Though I designed it for use with programs such as Bones Pro, it can also work well for certain types of pneumatic looking objects (robots, etc.). By setting the pivot point way outside of the muscle's mesh area, FLEX ends up controlling both scaling and movement of the muscle. Basically, anything you can come up with to scale an object based on the rotation of another object can be handled with FLEX. By the way, download the most recent version, FLEX1A.ZIP. The first version is missing a file called FLX.TMP. Without this file, the keyscript gives you an error. I'm sure a few people have figured out how to deal with this, but those unfamiliar with the Keyscripter will simply be cursing me for making them read all that documentation 3 or 4 times trying to figure out what they did wrong when the script crashes. I must apologize for this oversight.