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Ian, I just did something that I think is similar to the effect that you're trying to get. I had to make a car form out of the street – where the street starts to bulge as it looks like something is pushing itself up. the amorphous from then slowly constrains itself to the shape of the car. what I did was use the SEEZ_I.IXP routine (avail in the ipas lib) to create a 8 bit zbuffer image of the car – so the high points are white, and the low points are black. then, I used the image as a displacement map on a grid, that I applied SKIN to. voila! perfect match to the car geometry. I also took the image into Photoshop and created some blurred copies to use as intermediate morph targets before I arrive at the refined shape. It worked out really well. I could send you (or upload) a flic of it if you're interesed. -Kyle