awesome, thanks for the posts, I love. I'm definitly learning though, I'm up to my neck in books, and tutorials, haha.

another question about maps, and what not. I'd like to learn the baking methods, and what not, but say I wanted to create a lot level game. I'm not the best designer anyway. Say I wanted to use my low res meshes as they were created in maya, and apply a simple texture, through hypershade, and bump map if necisary is there any baking required in that?

Say for making a game like you'd see back in the early to late 90s..

lol.