The good news is that I now have a texture of sorts - the dreaded message is gone - and i get the picture with the blue background (above).
The bad news (You knew there had to be bad news didn't...

It is a modding group based on the "out of the box"
game Pirates of the Caribbean having been given access to the source code as long as we don't sell anything we produce.
It also covers several...

Well I tried Blender:
Exporting as VRML97 gave me an error report:
Duplicate Verts1: 'coord_myfile' could not be processed.

However I could export as VRML 1.0 and open the file in TOOL, but I...

Thanks ND,

Just to bring you up to speed - I have now worked out how to import vrml INTO Maya - so I tried that, but got the same results.

I tried 3D Max - but found that program to be far...

Firstly, THANK YOU for taking your time with this.
Here is a picture of the UV Map from Maya just prior to export.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff218/shortjackgold/UVLAYOUT-2.jpg
Please...

When "he" is originally received back after export from Maya as a vrl his arms are up.
It is the "local" translation program which puts the vrl (vrml) back to GM format which lowers the arms (this...

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff218/shortjackgold/AXX.jpg
This is how he appears in Maya just prior to export.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff218/shortjackgold/A2B.jpg
And this is him...

I am almost 70 and am trying my hand at character modeling for the first time,
so please excuse my ignorance in some of the technical matters.
I am learning as I am going.

I am trying to...