So does Irrlicht have native support for hardware skinning, or do you need to write the shader yourself? Hardware skinning can be a huge boost for performance when there are multiple animated objects in view.

The real question is, does it still deform properly? The problem with using decimate, is that it messes up joint topology.

Yeah, duh. lol. I've been thinking about this model for a while, I feel guilty for not being able to finish it really. I haven't had much free time to finalize the textures, and I've only just started its animations. However I see a few other talented people here, and was wondering if I released the...

IDK if this website supports GIF but here's a little bit of progress on a movement animation. mostly just the spine done, then I'll get the legs in. There is a small stutter in the loop, not sure if that's the gif or the animation. http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o797/beng128/3721_zps361de322.gi...

Here's what I have so far on the texturing. I'll admit that I'm not proud of the current texture, definitely needs some more work.

In blitz3d how many bones does it support for model rigging?

I'm still painting him up, could take a bit (I'm not the fastest at texturing.) I hear that the animations in the game could use a tune up... If someone wants to pass me some of the files for the MTF and 939 models and their rigging, I could try my hand at animating them a little. No promises or any...

So I'm gonna texture it so that It wont require any normal or specular maps, seeing as blitz doesn't do them any good. Normally I would let the normal and specular do a lot of the shading work as it makes it look really nice but I think I can make it look good with just a diffuse. Normal tool is Xno...

The normal mapping went wonderfully. Now I just have to finish painting it. This is the lowpoly with the normal map on it:

Alright mirocaine I'm having hell with the uvw mapping of the model (honestly my least favorite part of modeling), so I think I'll take up your offer to help. Can I send you the model in obj format or something, and you can unwrap it? If you want I can send you the highpoly for normal mapping too, b...