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Aye lads that's the stuff. I also found that the chrome material obscured the bump more than I wanted, so after the new blurred image, removing the chrome material we have this.

Thanks on the tip with the blur..I'll play with that and see if I get the effect I want.

Thanks guys for the input..I made sure the key color was not set and even bumped the percent up tae 600% and it didn't make much of a difference. I suspect the image being used as the bump, and since it wasn't overly important to make it an etched look, just something I wanted to play with, I decided to change the the decal type to color and this is the result. Now to the next step..I'll be putting this chanter to use as a beginners bagpipe tutorial, and "lip-synching" the fingering positions to the respective notes, then allowing the student to enter notes, songs etc and have the program move thru the finger positions. I'll write it in visual basic, the only question is how to animate the hand movements. I'm thinking rendering out stills of each note, then using these as slides in the application. Any one have thoughts on this?

Still in process...met with a corporate finance laywer last weekend. He specializes in getting companies ready for financing, his sons are NYC finance lawyers specializing in first and second tier venture funding. So we're hopefull this will produce what we need. Believe me you all on the forum will be the first to know!

Here's the bump map graphic

Here's a close up of the etching...

Folks, I'm working on a side project using this practice chanter. I wanted to dress it up and add a bump map to the chrome collar. But the tga image doesn't seem to create the definition I wanted. The decal was applied with as a cylindrical decal, type bump. Any ideas on how to best set up a bump map to get this decal to show as etched in the chrome?

I'm putting together a demo animation for a celtic rock band and I'd like some thoughts on the character animation. I'm not entirely happy with the timing but that may be simply myself being overly critical. So I'm looking for another set of eyes on it. There are two files on this page, one is a rm file the other is a large (in size) avi. The url is http://www.scotiapublishing.com/haggis.htm