Well Happy New Year of The Snake to you all I am sorry if this is old or offedutopic news.. but I really thought you might appreciate to hear that the good work continues in the strangely feverish world of Blender developers and fans. http://www.blender.nl The new Game Blender v2.++ is attracting a lot of people initially make [doh] games+ 3Danimation. But soon they start asking about Python..sucked in by itse spell, promise and potential ;-) Seems to be gaining an especiatl following in the UK, Holland, Germany and France [The E-connection perhaps?] some links to browse.. a french site http://blender.free.fr/docs/didac1.htm an article in German on Python programming for Blender http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe/2000/04/Blender/blender4.html exporting blender to other renderers http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ Complete Blender - Python Script introduction [site is 'bilangue' = French + English!] Truly this is an excellent site - there is a so much here to consider. A valuable resource to demonstrate and motivate any Python class; how scripting languages connect to other program environments etc. http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/python_script00.htm Lovely Potatoids!! http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/python_script05.htm tesselate - eat your hearts out. http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/python_wireshadows.htm http://jmsoler.free.fr/didactitiel/blender/tutor/english/index_prog_python.h tm Two key people in the Python-Blender work: 'jan' [the guy at Nan responsible for digging in deep to create for Blender a truly useful Python API] and 'tHe-IcemAn' [a master Blender user with some great tutorials and fan of PyGLUT http://205.152.62.12/gruff/ http://blender.free.fr/docs/didactic/iceman/index-ice.htm Also there is a very nice new beginners Blender book out from the lively 'No-Starch Press' http://www.nostarch.com/?blender Deutschsprachige Informationen zu Blender und dem Buch gibt es auf: http://www.blenderbuch.de/ Nan's revised tutuorial/books for v2 are due out soon too: http://www.blender.nl/showitem.php?id=103 http://www.blender.nl/shop/tuto2/index.html and an interesting book of Blender art by Shigeto Maeda http://www.blender.nl/shop/kara/index.html enjoy -Jason ___________________________________________________________ Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS['Interactive Art and Technology']