that is true yes Yes I could and people could, but while people are getting there or for people who only need to tweak anims, dragon is a good step into it. it doesnt have to be mb2 that was an example of one I'd find useful myself, its meant to be an animation folder that gets updated every now and then with the most useful anims. I was hoping someone with more knowledge and sway in the community would post on this but to help me get permissions not to discourage me, but then again murphy's law for this to happen. I think It's weird in a way to suggest new animators to leap into softimage and try rigging straight away,because it's presuming a level of confidence in their knowledge without knowing it. when they need to learn to edit animation .cfg files and .gla merge first. hell i didn't know you could change animations around in this game with text editors when i started out modding jka years back Softimage at an early stage of modding seems very foreign , a nub with a text editor switching their animations is very different to creating full content in Softimage. someone who has years of modding in jka wouldnt need what I requested. but most people at least have a period where they just mess around with jka before serious modding. What are the negatives of my suggestion,as that seemed a little like a shut down. I know that your trying to give really good advice to save peoples time that don't know so much by getting them to avoid things like this and get to the good stuff. I really do, this is a stepping stone in that direction.simple stuff for us simple modders . this is not intended for more advanced animating,I don't think that many new animations need to be made if we combined all the good and useful ones that have been developed already.it would second as a useful folder to get ideas for animating quickly with use with modview. I use modview with a .gla with lot's of anims merged from mods and put them in ingame sp just to mess around.Surely i'm not the only one that would find this at all useful? I want to stand my ground a little bit here as i think this isnt an idea to be shunted straight away. I do not mean it to anger you. I don't mind learning to use softimage, heck i'll need to to do more advanced things to get my mod really started. I'll firstly say i have trouble in rigging, while learning I still want to be able to play around with and build with animations in an easy way as well as tweaking them, If i can't get help to get this request. I'll probably make it anyway and give it to people who specifically ask as long as it isnt used in any mods until i get permissions regardless. One more thing: what is a her- err, animator?