Hi. I've been goofing around with textures and came up with this. Question: how do I get the seems to vanish? Do I just (or have to) mirror one side of the body to the other? Second question: how do I get the "scales" on him to be the same size even over parts of him that are moving or flexing? I just slapped the pattern down on the texture file for this draft.But is there a program for pulling and shrinking the texture such that it fits in side the vertices, or whatever they are, of a body map? Thanks.

If you just apply a flat, continuous texture to a UV mapped model, it will tend to do that. Imagine that the map is an opened out version of the model's surface; somewhere there has to be a seam, and there are usually several. You would normally distort your map to achieve a seam free appearance, but this depends on knowing which bits join to which. SnowSultan has a series of seam guides in freestuff that will help.

Welcome to the headaches of texturing...this is why not everybody does it. It takes alot of patience to match up seams, specially with a repeated pattern like scales. A cloning tool in photoshop becomes a good friend for that....but there really is no easy way (unless you have a program like deeppaint or something similar)

What's similar to deeppaint? Also, does the variance in size of the "cells" of the texture map tell you anything.