Quote - Well put Rutra, and very gently.

Scarcely.

I was going to ignore Rutra's response, as it mixed quite a bit of snide in with no information.

I'm scarcely a clueless newb, as my join date and postings would attest. Vue's implementation of instancing technology (which is what Ecosystems are) is unique, its powerful, but its quite different from other instancing technologies, and the manual, which I have read, is not particularly detailed pace Rutra.

Control of orientation, animated meshes, and much more are mentioned or implied in the manual, but not described in detail; to take but one simple example -- [how] can one use an array of nulls to control an ecosytem? This is common technnique for anyone working with instancing in other applications (HD Instance for Lightwave is my reference point, but there are several others, all working somewhat differently from each other, but very differently from Vue).

I was looking for sources of additional information on controlling what is a very powerful but under-documented tool.

What I got was unncessary snarkiness, and no useful information.