Many thanks for that. As it goes I also checked Director-online and they have a new 
website linked up there:

http://www.jmckell.com/  - Animation Math in Lingo

I have only glanced through it, but looks like a very useful website with loads of 
examples

cheers

Fraser

>Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm currently trying to create a floating 'balloon-type' movement in one of my
>> projects and am currently stumped.
>> 
>> does anyone know of any good pointers/starters to programming such movements -
>> i'm fine with straight lines :-)
>
>Hi Fraser,
>
>There's a 'Waft' behavior in the Animation | Automatic library palette.  If
>you drop this on your balloon sprite, set it to rotate a maximum of 2� per
>frame, and place the surface above the top of the stage (eg: -60), the
>result might look something like a helium balloon floating away.
>
>There's also Darrel Plant's Random Movement and Rotation behavior in the
>same palette.  This moves a sprite along a randomly generated B�zier curve.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
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