Oh yeah man, I like, I like. Looked too damn fake originally, I also noticed you took off that flashlight on the front. Good move, I didnt like it, messed with the texture on the front sight. Cant wait to start smokin folks with it. Great job  

hehe, the trick to get the flashlight texture off the front sight is simple, I just cut the light out and moved it to a part of the texture that was empty, and pasted a new front sight from a different texture over the original front sight, eliminating the part that was blocked by the light previously.. Then, like I said, I made a new light out of a cylinder and retextured the model. After that, I ungrouped the model's pieces and moved the textured light to where it should be.

Think about it... remember you can break up (ungroup) the model at any time, even after it's textured, and manipulate the pieces. Each individual piece will retain it's texture indepentent of the others. Sometimes this is the only way, like with models such as the monstrous M-134 minigun from US TAC

Something I also do is make a seperate texture for say, just a light, or a scope. Then make a model of the scope or whatever, texture and save it. Now you can merge it with any gun model scene and add it to any weapon. Saves time, and makes it easy to create variants of a particular weapon, just gotta remember to put the ?scope's texture in the textrue folder of the mod along with the gun's texture. I haven't noticed any performance issues resulting from having several textures on a model.  

I hear ya bro, the problem is I do understand what your saying but dont understand the process. Im gonna send ya a list of questions one day, when you get everything completed. Ive got like four more models to do for cobra and hes sending the warsawpac to you. Trust me, you will have your hands full fixing textures on this one. I would appreciate any assistance, Im not saitisfied with the bitmaps, most of the ak's arent very clear and I dont know squat about photoshop to clean them up. Later man.

ive been outta town since Wednesday so I just got your message. I think the text idea is great, you know how I feel man, you and cobra need to work your magic on it. I just did a few models, yall tweak it up  
Damn, I hate I didnt ask about the weapons man, I fugured you and cobra got the pics. I saw the message you sent a while back but didnt catch the fact the pics you were talking about were different than the ones cobra sent. Get with him and if he wants me to work on them, send them.

(still wondering if ya sighted my weapon in correctly, hint)  
Later man, thx for all the help, couldnt do it without ya.

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