CompuServe Messages

David, Lightwave has a scripting language built-in and it is quite powerful. Gary has already expressed the fact that he doesn't like non friendly scripting features. Basic is a programming language and is fairly user friendly. What I envision is something along the lines of Macros which are great for repetitive tasks. If you've worked with Ami Pro maybe you are familiar with the concept. There are lots of possibilities in this area. But I expect they will be an added feature not a replacement for the approach you currently employ. You should be able to save scripts. For instance, you could type in some text in the shaper, call up the script and it would apply beveling, lofting and mapping coordinates to your pre-defined specifications. So that once you ran the script, you'd go into the the builder and there the letters would be all ready made. One of the best scripts I've seen on the Amiga is one a friend of mine created for doing a boolean operation on a block of granite, where with a random function it broke up the object into random pieces while still maintain the objects original shape, then applying another script you can make the object fly apart relative to the objects position. Rather than having to keyframe each object. It will really depend on how far they take the scripting as to what you will be able to do but I think once its implemented, you'll wonder how you got along without it. -JE