Below is a question I posted at the Adobe/Flash Forum, and I recieved a response that sent me to your interesting posting here. I’d be highly appriciative if you could add any comments or thoughts or further direction to my question below, as you appear to be thinking along very similar lines. Indeed, given my lack of success everywhere else in solving my problem, here’s my email in case we should perhaps communicate on a more business-like level (kim.r.reynolds@gmail.com). Thanks so much for your consideration, Haelix.

Here was my posting:

Please excuse my total lack of knowledge, but is flash capable of animating objects (visual elements) such that the objects’ motions (translation, rotation, etc) is completely defined by an external data set? For instance, I want to show a car doing various maneuvers based on x and y position data (plus rotation data) sourced from an external datafile (at present, excel, but obviously it can be converted into whatever format works). My goal is to produce a series of animation videos, with each one being unique by iteratively changing the external data during the production process. Again, please excuse my lack of knowledge but I hate to spend a lot of money without first knowing if this is even possible. Thanks everybody.

- Kim Reynolds