"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them" Surely that's the point, history is littered with the lessons people & nations forgot, like the first world war :) Though I'd be surprised if Studio did animation. Especially when we, as a comunity, have only 12 or so animators. Seems like a waste of effort. I'd be happy with a basic posing tool that supported some of the shader tricks that OpenGL is capable of. A Phsyics plug-in would be cool, but I don't expect a P5 replacement. later jb