CompuServe Messages

Zack, have you read everything in the manual concerning mapping coordinates, material application, and the properties of Decal transparancy? By your message, it's quite difficult to pinpoint exactly where you are running into your problem. Also, there are a number of ways to approach the "decaling" of an object in 3DS that may be of interest to you, and I'd be glad to explain them to you if they are revelant to your projects. If you continue to have a problem with your Decaling, I'd be glad to take a look at your file (you could Email the critical parts to me) and try to help you get the effect you are looking for using either the Decal method, or the other approaches I mentioned, if applicable. As you get deeper and deeper into the workings of 3DS, I think you will come to appreciate (as most here do) the vast options 3DS affords you to create many, many effects. Often all you have to do is let your mind wander a little bit and you come up with all kinds of approaches to tasks you may encounter. It is the hallmark of a comprehensive 3D package, I think, and one that has saved me many times. Please let me know how you are doing, -Alan