Thanks, 3Dream! I've seen your figure. Nice work!

We could probably talk endlessly about the best way to do UVs, but the important thing for me now is to get my figure ready for release. If the current UVs turn out to be that bad - and I think they don't have that many seams anymore, which have all been placed with some thought - I can give it another try later or find someone more talented than me.

I'll probably buy myself the Blacksmith3D-Paint program, which seems to work well enough under Wine. 3dCoat looks much more advanced, but although I can run the demo, all the buttons are blank and I don't know what I'm supposed to click. I'll keep trying.

Anyway, both those programs are fairly inexpensive and - supposedly - let you paint on 3d surfaces in a natural way. That should make it much easier in the future for texture makers to fix seams and maybe even create their textures in a 3d program in the first place. I may be wrong about this, but I sincerely think that a paradigm shift is fairly close. Who knows, maybe Poser 8 or Poser 9 will already come with a builtin way to paint textures in model space.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.