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Hi Fred, << What other packages have you used? >> Everything ever written for the PC extensively, Alias & Explore mainly on the SGI, and a number of programs on the Amiga & Mac years ago. << Are you an animator? If so where do you work. >> I guess you'd call me an animator <g> I've done it for quite a while via my own company MEDIA MAGIC. In the last month, I've taken an extended sabbatical (supposedly) to try to clean the cobwebs out and get involved in a few 3D-related personal projects. Just burnt out <g>. << Have you used Prism's before >> Yes. But only for a hour/few hours at a time only for evaluation. It seems to be a very fine and reasonably (wrt others) priced program, and great for character animation which I'm very much into. My awareness of spring dynamics and such stuff goes back a few years though, mainly from just my personal research and awareness of research done at IBM/TDI a while back. << I too, would also love a utility that could do this kind of thing, hopefully someone will write this for us. >> I hope so. Or at least a generic dynamics routine where this could be "designed" by the user without resorting to a cryptic programming language. A program that I have been beta-testing for some time – Real 3D – can accomplish this, but only via it's programming language now. I'm not a programmer, so I don't attempt to dabble in the language. It's not ready for release on the PC though. Very interesting program, but you can't beat 3DS for a complete stable package. I hope all of this new IPAS3 stuff will greatly enhance the program in the procedural animation area as well as in more sophisticated modeling. Nice talkin' to 'ya, but I'm off to catch a plane and late. BILL