hi The amapi tutorial cd nears its completion. It also gives some information on using amapi to create poser clothing and practical uses which would be of interest to the group here. I have written a little application that will help overcome a problem with the current versions of amapi when using it to create a symmetrical duplicate of a previously uv mapped obj model. Anyhow, I am going to be including this with the tute. To better help me understand how many people can actually use it "as is" (without an installer)...I need to know the following. Do you have the following file on your computer: "scrrun.dll" Just do a search for it from your start menu..it should be in your system or system32 directory. Including the runtimes will make it impossible for me to make this a downloadable tutorial...so I'm just feeling around to see if its really worth it to include this program with the tute. This dll is one that allows visual basic to use scripting to write files..for instance, once the program makes the mirrored duplicate of your model..it needs to be able to write it back to disk. If you dont have this file, it can't write to disk and you'd get an error. tia BT