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I have your Metaballs modeler and it is very fast and easy to use. I had a bit of confusion when installing onto my slave machines, but after a couple of tries everything works. I would like to map a texture onto the animated metaball, so far no luck. I created the metaball texture as specified in the manual, but it seems to ignore any textures applied in the materials editor other than your special .sxp. I was hoping to add a painted face image to a metaball head. If I could combine this an animated texture map with a metaball surface, that would be great. Andrew.