Rigid bind might do what you want. You could, for example, select all the geometry for the head, and the head bone, and do a rigid bind to the selected joints. Thats what I did for my robot model. ...

looks good!

I have problems with blurry textures too sometimes. Changing the filtering type to "off" makes them a bit sharper for me. Also, play around with your antialiasing settings. I've...

Diving into rendering, and hitting a roadblock..

I'd like to use render layers to render the diffuse colors in one layer, ambient occlusion on top of that, and then a layer for glowing materials. ...

It is legal in Maya to have multiple DAG nodes with the same name so long as they don't have the same parent node.

I know duplicating does this. For example if you:
- create a cube called pCube1...

Thx mr pix! will try this out after setting up some shaders for my character.

I used a script from www.youneedthisman.com called biped factory to make the initial skeleton. It basically did all the work of creating/labelling the bones and FBIK character =)

Binding wasn't...

Yup, everything except the gun, hands, and joints. For smooth curved surfaces I find them easier to model with. (Although texturing proved to be a *major* pain)

YTV probably has some reruns at some odd hour in the night, but I haven't seen it on tv for awhile. There's always the dvds if you get the urge I guess.

Thanks, I'm a big fan of Gundam too!

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