Well, I cant help with the animation side of things, but I would like to comment on some of the others. 1st up, OpenGL... Ouch! I have to agree with you here, the openGL support for Vue is absolutely 'disasterous' I recently bought myself a Radeon 6800 PRO card. A card capable of enourmous things with OpenGL, but even this crawls on Vue with only a few objects. The Vue 4 PRO Open GL I have heard from people using it is MUCH better although still seems a little flaky! Next Booleans... Yes you did miss it in the manual. Vue is actually fairly good at booleans (put it this way, personally I think it does a better job at Boolean than 3dStudio does, although I grant you 3dstudio's boolean has always been a debating point!) Its not brilliant at multiobject boolean, and can cause strange effects in textures, but on the whole its pretty good. Next Glacially slow updates... Use layers and turn them on + off. I believe its what most people do, as there doesn't appear to be much choice. But once again, PRO does seem to have improved this a lot! Finally, the playing of music while using Vue... Oh yes you can! and without stutters too. This is actually windows being gargantuanly awful at using resources (name something it isn't gargantuanly bad at LOL) but you can change it if your using WinXP like so: (im not sure how to do this in Win98 as I never came across it, but I'm sure its possible - maybe even exactly the same) CTRL ALT DELETE to bring up task manager. Right click on your player in the list and set the Priority to 'Realtime' this will bring up a warning message which is safe to ignore and click yes to, as your only affecting your mp3 player and not a system resource that would crash the machine if you tried this (thats what the message is about)... Hope some of this helps, or adds fuel :) Kutter.