thx buddy!! I asked a friend of mine who has no idea about mel but is a c++ programmer. he threw this together for me - after 10 minutes only. it´s working too.

thx for your effort. I´ll study both codes. life is hard without mel...





for ($counter = 1; $counter <= 200; ++$counter)
{
$object_a = "boid_" + $counter;
eval select -r $object_a;


$object_b = "mackerel_anim" + $counter;
eval select -add $object_b;

pointConstraint -offset 0 0 0 -weight 1;

orientConstraint -offset 0 0 0 -weight 1;


}