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Blob ipas. Great news. I'm a graduate student just starting my thesis which will be an animation involving some animals. My plan is to create the critters with blob and animate them with the BOnesPro deformation IPAS. Suggestions- be able to load a background reference bitmap image to model over. especially having separate images in each view. Label the ports. I keep getting lost. One of the biggest problems I have is switching back and forth between 3DS and Blob. The differences in interface cause me to take several minutes to reset my mind. Though, sounds like the IPAS version would slove that problem. It would be nice to be able to animate the blobs and their parameters and have the meshes produced at render time. (though, I'm not sure what that would do to mapping coords). Speaking of mappind. It would be nice if Blob layed out some UV mapping Coordinates. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. But as I get further into the project I'm sure I'll come up with more. By the way, sincere thanks from a poor college grunt for sharing this lovely piece of code. It is giving my the chance to do things that I would not have been able to do. When is the Blob IPAS expected? Ian.