Thanks Medzinatar, that was an easy one, should have figured that one out myself!  :-)

Thanks hborre, I don't think I'd completely understand without all the screencaps, appreciate your taking the time to make and post those here.

The initials for the title of the animation are TW, so I'm going to begin by re-naming all the kids figures beginning with "TW" or "TW Fig" (ie...TW Fig-Ben, TW Fig-1, TW Fig-2, etc...) and make my VSS rule be TW Fig* or TW*...something like that.

**Question on re-naming the figures: ** To use the VSS rule, do I have to re-save them all to the library using a different name as I have been doing as a grouping (see 6th post on page 5).  In other words, I can just leave the library name for each figure the way it is now (even if it doesn’t begin with the letters TW) and just change the figure names in the properties panel so it begins with TW, correct? Or do I need to change both and re-save to the library again? (hope that question makes sense!)

I'll get testing this between tonight and tomorrow and hopefully I can get a good render with the D3D pro output settings now in place.  I'll emulate the render settings you posted earlier & I'll post the results once I've finished.

Once I manually setup those render settings I had some difficulty saving to a preset last time. I was able to name and save the preset ok, but when I tried to load it back in later the settings for that preset wouldn't load in.  Will give it another try.