Dreamspinner, I'll email you when I get home tonight. Or you can use tdwillis@earthlink.net, if you want to add that to your address book manually. I haven't done any morphs for the tounge, but I did give it five parts so it could be posed. If you scale parts Tongue 2 through Tongue 5 in the z direction (I'd probably leave the base of the tongue, Tongue1, alone), you can make the tongue stick out. Rotate on the x and y axis to curve it. It has been suggested that since Cring does not have arms, the tongue might be employed in their version of Martial Arts. Which would probably mean their version of Jackie Chan is really, really popular with the ladies. I haven't figured out how to do morphs that involved more than one body part yet, but I'll look into it doing some for the tongue as a whole, and probably the neck as well. I'll have to give some think time to eyelashes, as I'm not sure how they would work with the eyelid morphs. Good suggestion, I'll let you know what I come up with. I also want to do some mouth morphs, as the way it opens seems a bit awkward to me. As far as colors go, I tend to make the females less brightly colored than the males, as is often the case with Earth species. And before you guys get all puffed up about that, keep in mind that the reason that females and juveniles are camoflauged is that they are more essential for the survival of the species, while the guys have to compete for the babes. So there. See, a brightly colored male is more of a target for predators. But bright colors are also an indicator that one is free from parasites, and healthier in general. So a brightly colored dude is a good mating prospect because not only is he healthy, he's managed to avoid being gobbled up by predators in spite of being a big ol' target. (Bright colors can also be an indicator that one taste really bad, or is poisoness, so one could go that way, too). My idea is that developing one's bright colors would be one of the big "coming of age" thigns for teenage male Cring. Also, litst suggested that it's the guys who wear lipstick, on their world. These are just some random thoughts/suggestions. Of course, people can design the textures however they like; I'm just happy people are wanting to use the model. My own textures tend to be on the cartoony side, but I think this guy would work with more "realistic" styles. I think I would look at lizards and fish for ideas. Or octopi... some species actually send signals to each other via color, like some chameleons do. Sorry, didn't mean to ramble on so long. It's just that this is my big 3D "debut" and I'm still pretty excited about it. Everyone has been so nice and encouraging, this has been a real blast. --Terri

Wow, that's really cool. A Dreamspinner texture. Now I feel like I've hit the big-time. Dreamspinner, the texture looks great, and I love what you've done with the eyes. If you want to put the texture in free stuff, I could store it at my web site. I'm trying to encourage as many people as possible to do textures, because it's not really my strong suit. My brother is working on one for me, but I'm not sure when he'll have it done. I was supposed to wait until it was finished, but I got too excited to see what everyone would think (I guess patience isn't my strong suit, either). --Terri

I'm curious -- how did you handle the tail? Did you give it it's own "sleeve"?

The lava in my lamp is opaque, also.

Well, willf, my dog is looking at me weird again, like he always does when I start laughing like a crazy person when I'm sitting at the computer. Looks like you added a bump map, big improvement. Clint, I am so glad to hear you are working on a texture. Textures aren't exactly my strong suit! I like the modeling part - a LOT, as it turns out - and I enjoyed bringing it into Poser and figuring out how to make it work. But when it came time for the textures, it was, "Uh... how about green? Green is nice." Thanks, guys. I'm all cranked up and starting my next figure. Got this idea for a robot I want to try out...

I wonder if it would be horribly cumbersome to allow the option of downloading the "readme" file before purchase. That might cut down on misunderstandings. --Terri

Sounds like fun. What's the time limit on this?

Thanks Anthony, I'll be sure to grab this. Your program already has saved me some major grief. Thanks for making it available. --Terri

Maybe he'll be less cranky, since I included a chyk version. Or maybe he'll be henpecked. --Terri

I like that the monster has the painted on Lego smile. Reminds me of the Stay-Puff Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters; he's destroying New York City, but he has this friendly cute face while he's doing it.

Actually, a female version is included. She's basically the same thing, only slightly smaller, and her eye is a little larger in proportion to her body (she's sort of peeking out from behind in the example above; it's sort of hard to tell -- I probably should have put her in front so you could tell she was smaller) and I made her texture map shades of brown, rather than green (figuring that it's the males who are more brightly colored, like many species on earth -- females and juveniles would be brown and more camoflaged). Actually, the texture maps I made are pretty cheesy. If anyone wants to provide nicer ones for freestuff, that would be great. I would be more than happy to host them at my site if you don't have web space (you would retain all rights, of course). Textures are not my strong suit. My idea of a fancy texture is if I use a color that's not one the basic Paintbrush default colors! Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. And please don't hesitate to let me know if you find things that are broken; I'm very new at this, so there could be a lot of stuff I've overlooked. So I won't take offense if you point out mistakes. I may cry myself to sleep, but I won't take offense. --Terri

Wow! All the entries looking great so far... full of cheesy B-movie goodness. I can already tell it's going to be hard to pick a winner.

Well, feel free to bang the mesh around in Carrara. It would be interesting to see what you come up with.

Does this mean you finally got Poser?

Dolly, don't worry about the "der" on saving the model. How do you suppose I knew what the problem was? Because I'd had the same problem, of course! I know what you mean about the "Eureka" moment. It's so cool when all the parts come together (though I try to refrain from running through the streets naked, like ol' Archimedes did -- the neighbors tend to get rather put out). Looking forward to your props. And Wizzard, thank you for the "lovely lady". There are those who would take issue with either word! --Terri