Thanks for all the help - I think I'll probally be able to take it from here. And about that bent pipe - it probally will be a challenge, but I'm not all that worried about it. I'll get by it somehow - and if worse comes to worse, I'll just use a procedural texture in poser for that.

Muhahahaha :D !

Hmm...I think that's a little too blury. You'll probally need a picture with not so strong of shadows too....But I can't help you there ;) . I'm not a photographer.

Hmm...I have a feeling I should have read some conforming tutorials before-hand ;) . What about the pose then? Why doesn't it save world transitions?

I use Rhino 2.0 right now - it's not exactly ment for pure polygon editing though. It uses nurbs. It's cheap compared to most modelers, (I'm a student and picked up my copy with Flamingo for around 250.00 if I remember correctly), and can do amazing things. It's an amazing tool at making morphs for poser characters too - however if your looking for a solid polygon modeler, then it's probally not going to be your first choice. I hear version 3.0 will offer more along the lines of polygon editing though. By the way, the Rhino 3d community here is amazing ;) . They'll teach you anything in no time!

Thank you very much ;) . They have some materials that look perfect!

Tirjasdyn: Good eye ;) . I modeled it after Ryoko's blade. I tried Kagato's, but I couldn't get it to look right. I got the entire Tenchi OVA series on DVD for Christmas ;) . I've been a Tenchi fan for years. Heh.

I don't know how to animate materials yet :)

"As for that stain on the floor, looks to me like someone took a c... and then tried to wipe it up" Lol. I was talking ot a friend joking about just that ;) . I agree, it does look a little like..uhh...Crap :) . I'll either be removing it or changing it.

I don't understand - if these splits happen, then how do people make poseable characters? How do I get around this?

You know....Just to piss Mr. Anonymouse off even more, I'm going to make some really awsome freebies. We'll see how many e-mails I get. Muhahahaha!

Wow - I never even knew that freestuff people were flamed like this. Sometimes I wish it were back to the old days, when the "Free Stuff" was titled "Fun Stuff" . All we had was freebies. Don't give up freebie people! Your awsome!

nerd: That's a pretty good idea. It's still not very hard for the pirate to put your updated stuff up on the p2p networks though - one of your members has to be the pirate, and since he's a legit member, he gets all the updates. All he has to do is put them into the shared directory. Still, it's a good idea. The pirate can't be THAT diligant. jval: I never thought of it that way....The idea has it's loopholes. I think the farthest I would go would be to not sell to that person again. Hmm....Here's a new idea. How about various merchants get together. The merchants that make similar stuff should get together - the Scifi merchants, the clothing merchants, etc - and they should all add footnotes in hard to spot places. When they find their products on warez groups/p2p software, they can notify all the other merchants boasting similar products. If another merchant in that group has found this person warezing, they can boycott selling to them. It's just an idea - it would take all the merchants getting together though, and not just a few.