pumico,

At  50 buckazoids it sounds reasonable. I found the dl page since my last post but it was 136 megs so it has to wait- no getting around it I'm gonna need high speed internet soon.

There has to be a utility/plugin for this somewhere that will group the objects and convert them to x if this program won't do it   . I'd ask around 3ds forums and how to convert them to x. Not so sure the 3ds2x converter shipped with the dx SDKs will handle  converting animation ????

Anyrate I thought a while back I could do it all - the programming -the artwork- the story line but there aren't enough hours in a lifetime to do it all; it's goona take me many more years to even get the artwork down so I'm not quitting the ... speaking of which - times short.

Thanks for the links and info.

• TJ