Hello people ill have here my wip of a Gladiator and i would like to know, how to set up the hair particle system to a point that i would like to achieve. And of course i would like to know how to make a good looking cycles material for it. Attached som refrence and my Mesh.

Should we expand the scope of this site to allow some simple "how to" questions? This question was a recent example of the kind of question that could be allowed. To give another example of this on stackexchange, GD seems to allow these sorts of questions, they even have a tag. I've noticed tha...

I have signed up to Blender Cookie and got an download link for the above mentioned file. But when I try to install it with the addon function in Blender it won't install. Does anybody know this file and can tell me how to use it? Regards, Pingponguin

I am trying to select the cube that in the middle of the scene. How can I select it? All I see is a crosshair appearing everywhere I click. Is this a bug?

I want to use the decimate modifier to make some LODs of a mesh, and this mesh has a very huge number of shapekeys which I must preserve. I can't apply the decimate modifier with a mesh with shapekeys.