Jimbo, I was composing my last post when you were posting.... thank you for clarifying about native/transposer. It does seem like that is the situation. Glad to have that clarity. Now I need to determine if I want to animate in Carrara. I'll need to find out if native brings enough over. On the other hand, I might just want carrara as the render platform, as you said, and would use transporter. Again, I am not attempting to learn the entire application; for one thing, I will not be modelling. Thank you for your responses. ::::: Opera :::::