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...

Use the bounding box to describe the area that the building takes up. Round upwards to the nearest integer, and use the scheme I suggested before. Very few buildings end up right next to each other...

Actually, that kind of thing IS a form of 2D collision detection. Games programming books show how to do this, I believe, but the most efficient algorithms use bit manipulation operators which MEL...

.wmv = windows media player. Iknewthat...

The title says it all. I can run .avi movies made with dvx on my Mac, but this file format is unrecognized. Suggestions?

Thanks in advance