Sorry its taken me a while to reply. I'm using Windows XP. I would like to put together the code and write my own mods, but the priority for me is ease of use, a simple tool that I can download and put together some code. Many many years ago the first few pages of programming manuals were often devoted to printing a couple of words on the computer screen, usually "Hello world", then everything else followed. I suppose the equivalent for our purposes would be to "create a creature" on screen and have it do something, talk, move or whatever. Does that make sense? Thanks.