As far as copying another vendor's stuff. I bought an item here a few months back. I paid for it and it is a good quality item and money well spent IMO. So I've been looking it over in my modeling program and sort of getting ideas of technique and stuff from it. The item is a nicely done helmet and I've been busy making my own copy of it from scratch. I haven't used a shred of the vendor's own work in my copy but have been more or less trying to mimick his creation as best I can. It's sort of good practice. When I get through with my copy I would like to put it out in the freebie section but I sort of feel that it wouldn't be right. I mean it's just a helmet, one piece out of the whole package I bought but I'm just afraid the vendor might feel slighted by my giving away a "replica" of his item.

So far I find the hardest part of modeling is creating and formatting textures. Man is it hard to get things to come out just the way I want. So far I've been keeping to simple items with simple textures. In fact my last couple helmets I've made don't even come with textures. I figure the biggest hurdle I have to creating something worth selling is getting textures down. There are other hurdles but textures seems like a big one to me right now.

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