I can't help you with rigging or weight painting, but feel free to ask me what I know about blender. I don't see why you can't texture in

3ds if you want to, my guess is all you need blender for is the collada export. maybe you'd have to set uvs in blender, but that is pretty

easy, actually. you can always team up with a texture artist too.

heh, I'd give anything to find someone who wanted to team up with me for texturing!

and idk anything about Blender. i DLed it and watched some tutorials, but after an hour all i could make was a box and a sphere >_<

I'd team up with you! My time right now is limited tho, but I'm still interested. What are you interested in making?

have you tried the maya controls of blender?? waaaaay easier and more intuitive. and jason welch's tutorials if you haven't seen them

already.

www.youtube.com/user/can...

go to the first blender one -

0101 Navigation Assignment.mp4

sorry i went to bed. am all sick. blekk. i want to make houses, but i also have another idea id like to explore with you (seecrit!)