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You're welcome. Sounds like your best bet might be to check with Dave at Digimation regarding THEIR bones routine. I have not used or tested it myself, but if an object can have several skeletal braches (or any), you might could construe some way to feed the MC data to the spline skeleton – which would (should) deform the mesh polygons smoothly. Since an un-sliced mesh can not be deformed locally in the keyframer, this sounds like the closest possibility. Unless you can manage to use the wishbone guy's techniques and other misdirection at the knuckles with skeletonally-driven Skin slices. BILL