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Don, Thanks for the tips but I got exactly what I was looking for on my own. Still don't really see the need for using an opacity map. An animated texture map works just fine, (white on black as a decal map) then you can use the RGB tint in the mapping dialog box and tint the ink any color you want. You can even use a second texture map to get the lines in the paper and use an opacity map for the holes in the side of the paper. Anyway, what I did was make a handwriting shape in the shaper and then use that as the path for a small sphere to travel along. Then I traced the spheres motion in APro to get the "ink". It was fairly easy – just very time consuming. I am going to play with Martin F.'s lofted handwriting object using opacity maps. It sounds like it would be much easier to implement. Well, thanks again for the suggestions. I am going to upload a .fli here for everyone to check out. It is coming out perfect. I did decide to do this just an exercise to see if I could, but it has turned out as more of an exercise in patience. <g> Dave Mennenoh