Originally posted by gster123 Ive recently found that you can use paint effects for thousands of uses, other than just simple painted paint effects, especially for VFX sounds interesting - care to expand gster - maybe give examples? er- a while back neostrider told me about ctrl clicking on the axis of the move tool to ensure that when you move the object or component it will stay in that plane - very useful! you can also use ctrl to transform along the other two axis - so if you use ctrl and drag the z scale axis, you will scale along y and x.