Poppi, are you and Teyon moving over to the dark side ? Lightwave ??? j/k, I may end up getting C4D myself.. may still model in Rhino. Anyhoo... I like the idea of a weekly topic (non app specific) and/or challenge on the topic. yanno, something nice and general .. read that simple. I have a question about mapping textures. I;ve downloaded 3DS Star Wars files from theforce.net and wondered how they get the textures/colors to go with the model. I know some use UVMapper .. but ya hafta convert to OBJ to map it. So, how do these guys create models in 3DS and have them textured ?