Animation: How does it work?

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You have to use FindChild.

If in Max the models skin is called "skin":

Bloke=LoadAnimMesh("bloke.b3d")
BlokeAnim=FindChild(Bloke,"skin")
Animate BlokeAnim,1,1,1

Its cause the Max exporter puts a Root node at the top of the hierarchy and the skin is below that.

As a side note, if you are using Character Studio and a Physique skin, it will have to be converted to a normal Max skin but you can get a free Max plugin for that.

Hope this helps.