Aha! Well said, my friends. EtchASketch: your quick confession of confusion: gracious, voluminious and detailed, is an unparalled example of classic medieval scholasticism that is the basic underpining of the Carrara manual...I am convinced. [LOL] The only thing lacking, which, as yet, cannot be conveyed by an e-mail, would be the elegant 'Gallic' shrug-of-the-shoulders'. Mon ami...I am ever in your debt. Nicholas86: Let me explain myself a bit farther. I was trained on Strata 1.5 in 1995. I used it and loved it until a year ago when its limitations [and squirrelly renderer] led me to a better way. Now, as I enter the worlds of Carrara and Poser, I am confronted with a welter of terms that are new. Such as: TARGET So...whuts'a'target? As I understand it, it's not a thing/object, but a point in time. Such as: a morph target. Change A to B. Am I right here? And...in the past I had conceived of parenting a walking figure [with a repeating walk cycle] to an object [like a small sphere] which is out of the cameras view, and using it to elevate the walk sequence up a terrain gradient. Is the sphere a 'null' object? I am, and remain, confused by this notion of "target helper". Thanks so far, and any further clarification will be most happliy recieved.