Originally Posted by minkscooter

Thanks Dick! No insult taken (even before I found that you are referring to dummy objects) Only it seems like such a common thing for someone to want to do, I wonder why the controls are hidden? Did the developers worry that they were unintuitive? A simple snapshot widget that does "drop dummy at camera" without advertising the fact that the implementation uses a dummy object would be far more intuitive. I know that my daughter loves to take pictures and scroll through the list of pictures she has taken, so if presented with a similar interface, she would immediately guess what it was for and want to try it out.

Anyway this sounds a lot better than dragging in mushrooms and turning them invisible. Do you happen to know if it's possible to manually control the camera and drop dummy objects after the initial setup, after your movie methods have moved characters around a bit?