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Help! I'm making a Space ship which needs the detail of hull plates, the actual plates that go together to make the hull, making them on the straight surfaces was easy, now at the front of the ship the hull curves and bends, so booleaning on all this score lines will be almost impossible, The Ship is a Federation Runabout from 'Trek, so does anyone have any idea about this lines on the hull, the problem with an inverted tex' map is that there would have to be about 30-40 made across the hull!, is there another method that the manuals or Inside 3ds have not mentioned? Greg w'