Chippwalters,
baking metablobs is the ONLY way you cna get the buggers otwork right, at times, with some materials :(
In my I, Beholder pic, I used metalbobs to build drool, dripping from the beasties' mouth, baked the metablobs to polygons (or liquid mateiral would just bugger up), and it worked a damned charm! :)
So that IS a very good feature, folks ;)

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