Sounds like great results and quickly too.
I'm going to download Wings3D this afternoon and give it a try. (Also a nice link re viruses - though sad that we need such things.
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If you have time, maybe you could see if Wings3D can solve this problem that was posted a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.alice.org/community/showthread.php?t=382
I've failed the couple of times I tried and I wasn't trying for anything very hard - just a different texture on the inside and the outside of a tube. (A coordinate mapping would also be nice, but I didn't even attempt that.)
Jim