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They went over scripting for collision detection, and it was about four pages of script and it didn't look to confusing. I think I am safe to assume that you will be able to develop custom animation functions, granting that you know enough about programming to write them. The language is supposedly "BASIC-like" in structure. I am not familiar with 'C' either but when they scrolled through the script, it looked pretty straight forward. This is an excerpt from the preliminary technical specifications: "- Compose command scripts using a BASIC-like interpreter to move, rotate, scale, hide, and morph objects. For example, define a new pivot point for an object and rotate it with floating-point precision. – Execute a script in the text editor and immediately affect the contents of the keyframer. – Employ numeric and string variables, math functions array and structure commands for creating sophisticated data driven animations. – Use 3D Studio dialog boxes to prompt for user imput. – Reuse scripts, share scripts and embed scripts into .3DS files for easy transfer to other 3D Studio users." This was taken straight formm the Feature and Spec sheet for R4 they gave out at SigGraph. Hope this helped. Andrew