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>Having also gone from the Imagine environment to Lightwave, being able to
>slap decals onto an object is a feature I sorely miss. And even though
>you can rename your surfaces, this still doesn't give a solution as
>simple as the Imagine one.

  Well if I wanted to rotate one pic and put it on the same surface as
  another I would have to do it in ADPro and try to get it to map correctly
  in Lightwave. Bottom line is it stinks. I guess it comes down to adding
  surfaces to my exsisting object(ie: make a plane size the plane, line it
  up on the desired axis, rotate it and then do a union.)

>Unfortunatly, what you're going to have to do, is create a special image
>map in Forge, just for the part you want, as slap a number on it. I know,
>it ain't as easy as Imagine, but Lightwave ain't Imagine.
    I did just that. I took an emblem composisted it over the hullplate
 texture and then used it on it's own surface. Now I have this neat emblem
 on the object with the hullplate and it looks nice,but wait I have used my
 ONE available color and forfited the ability to use it for fractal noise.
 I did the rest of the torso by making it a green and added the hullplate
 as diffuse. Now that looks good, and I can add fractal noise under color
 but  it will not work with the mixed in=mages we discussed.

 >And hopefully if Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Hastings are tuned in, one other
 >thing I like about Imagine, better than Lightwave, is the ability to save
 >a group of objects is the same file. For example a fully articulated
 >humanoid model can be saved as a single file in Imagine. There would be
 >no need to save it as a couple of dozen disjointed body parts linked to
 >gether by the description in a scene file. Maybe we'll see this in
 >Lightwave 5.0 for the Mac??? :)

 I miss this too. I went thru the pian of resiging a complexx model last
 night in modeler. You can do the whole thing at once but then you have to
 suffer breaking it apart again for animation .

 >And for the record, I deleted Imagine off my hard drive two months after
 >I got Lightwave.

 For the record I did not. It still serves nicely to render forge images.
 Now it may serve nicely as a composit program to replace ADPro. I could
 add my many brushes render it out and use that as my map in lightwave.
 As much as I like LW it has some glaring problems when it comes to
 surfacing, and in cases as you stated object handeling.
                        bill
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