Originally posted by mhcannon Wow, looking at this thread I feel like I'm illiterate... How long does it take to get comfortable with MEL. I'm not a programmer. This isn't really MEL stuff but regular game programming and mapping stuff that applies to what he's trying to do. There's plenty of discussion of how all this kind of stuff works. A good place to start would be: https://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/.../gameprog.html or the rec.games.programmer newsgroup.