Attached Link: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/150204/Action/FullPreview

I need a great piano model for my big animation project, a 9' Bosendorfer concert grand with morphing everything. However, I am now working up my next "incremental" animation, about 4-6 minutes, again in shadow as was my Lin animation, but an interior set featuring a piano, and have decided it can simply be an excellent but smaller grand.

I've found a model at Turbo Squid that will prob. be okay, attached link.

I wrote to Turbo asking for .obj export and some additional images. They wrote back right away and said yes on the format and sent a zip of images including mesh. Here are the images (2MB).

1. there are supposedly no textures with the model. In Poser, besides tripping black as the diffuse/ambient color, what will drive the other colors, and what will drive the "finish" on the model and the reflections? Node work, i'd bet.

2. can anyone say by looking at this section of the mesh

if morph targets could be built on each key, making them each independently animateable?

3. on props like this in general...they are always too perfect and sharp-edged. To get beveled edges I would have to do work in modelling software, right? I have trueSpace and can take it in there and back.

4. what would be the approach to texturing this model so I could build in dings and imperfections and perhaps dull spots in the finish to show age, etc. Would the easy thing to do be to make a texture for each plane and apply, somehow? While the sale page says no textures included, the next image seems to show a texture, so what's the deal i wonder:

Thanks all

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