thank you for the answer Steve. I have never worked in multiple programs before (other than modelling), it seems a strange. It looks from the video that you can dress a scene with in Clarisse, but if you're animating elsewhere, you probably need to interact with the stuff built in Clarisse. So like do you have to send it out to the animating program, get the animation set, THEN send the animation stuff to Clarisee. Just wondering. I would love to find a way to move on from Softimage, looking at the options.