Oh, and while I'm at it (if I'm not too late)... I never use the "translate/rotate/etc.." tools (apart from the grouping tool) 'cos my mouse/hand/eye co-ordination isn't good enough to use them. There seems to be 2 separate types of tools here; 1 set that allows you to use the mouse (immediately) to affect the currently-selected character/prop, and another set that brings up a separate dialogue. That is, some are "direct" and some are "indirect". I'd like it if these could be separated, so that I can hide the ones I don't want to hit (usually inadvertantly). I'd also like the ability to be able to select a group of objects (perhaps by drawing a bounding box that includes them, and be able to exclude any objects included by mistake, or maybe select by clicking on each object in turn), and then be able to move/scale/rotate (etc) the group of objects as a whole in the 3D space. I know I can achieve this by parenting the objects I want to affect to something, but that is really just a work-around, and usually involves creating an additional (non-scaled/moved) prop to act as a temporary parent during the move or whatever, then having to unparent the objects and delete the surrogate parent.. Cheers, Diolma