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<<If I understand you correctly, you'd like to call EXP_SELECT_INPUT_OBJECT from an AXP that you write, that is guarenteed to be called *after* the SKIN_i.axp at render time and it would query SKIN's created object.>> This is correct. If 3DS goes through the AXP's when rendering from the top downwards in the objectlist, as it does for Auto-reflect calculation,in the keyframer it will work. Then I can put my object with my AXP on it as a child to the skin object I want to output. Then I know this will be processed afterwards. If I can use "kxp_get_parent" from an AXP I wouldn't even need to know the name of the skined object. <<I asked an Autodesk engineer and he did not think that this was possible.>> I think I have read somewhere that the object made by an AXP has a totaly different name (by random) than the original object. If this is the fact it won't work as I need to no the name for "EXP_SELECT_INPUT_OBJECT". <<Have you gotten any results from your experimentation with this?>> I havn't started as I'm in the investigation state of this idea. [even more curious] -M.E