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Ok, here's a complete jeep patch file, with the blender file for fun. You'll need blender to be able to play with the source, but once you learn how to work blender, you can do custom paint jobs to the jeep. The jeep is fairly centered on the camera, and the lighting is not perfectly set for Furcadian, so what you see in the edit mode is not going to be what is rendered. The checkerboard floor (layer 20) is also set 1/10 a blender unit below the jeep, this was done because every now and then, a render will drag the checkboard into view, and the shadow floor, (purple layer 10) hash interferes with it. The patch file is not completely arranged logically or consistently, this is due to the "learning" which I underwent in transforming blender images into something which works for Furcadia. Take for example shape 2. Further down, when you look at its mirror counterpart (29), you'll note that the back wall is missing completely, however, here, because the spare from shape 1 covers where the back wall is, I didn't bother removing the shape and making a separate shape for it. The locations of various bits and pieces from the jeep are in odd shapes because of the draw order in furcadia, putting some of the bits in the wrong spot results in the furre overlapping the shape wrong, or too much flickering when the furre walks past the shape. As to the blend file, the cursor is centered on the rotation point of the jeep, any of the corners will do, it's a bit tricky in actually learning how to rotate then move the jeep properly, experimentation will reveal how it works, hence why I got that checkboard in there. I will write a tutorial based on this laters.

Hmm, final little note, the full shapes you see here are not the full shapes you will find in the patch file, the ones in the patch file have been whacked to permit alignment of the parts.

Patch File Blender File	Object	Width	Height	X Off	Y Off	Sit	Walk	Get	F PoX	F PoY
	0	193	115	-64	-20	N	N	N	0	0
	1	122	69	7	23	Y	Y	N	8	-21
	2	92	73	3	25	Y	Y	N	3	-20
	3	60	50	7	29	N	Y	N	0	0
	4	86	57	7	42	Y	Y	N	6	-14
	5	77	44	10	54	Y	Y	N	7	-18
	6	128	80	1	22	N	N	N	0	0
	7	132	80	-3	23	N	N	N	0	0
	8	67	51	30	26	N	Y	N	0	0
Patch File Blender File	Object	Width	Height	X Off	Y Off	Sit	Walk	Get	F PoX	F PoY
	9	193	122	-34	-26	N	N	N	0	0
	10	132	103	-6	-7	N	N	N	0	0
	11	129	103	-2	-5	N	N	N	0	0
	12	97	72	6	19	Y	Y	N	7	-26
	13	92	72	9	20	Y	Y	N	9	-25
	14	90	63	5	25	Y	Y	N	-4	-24
	15	70	57	-8	24	N	Y	N	0	0
	16	105	71	4	22	Y	Y	N	6	-22
Patch File Blender File	Object	Width	Height	X Off	Y Off	Sit	Walk	Get	F PoX	F PoY
	17	185	118	-64	-21	N	N	N	0	0
	18	109	103	-9	-6	N	N	N	0	0
	19	100	103	-11	-5	N	N	N	0	0
	20	80	72	-10	19	Y	Y	N	-6	-25
	21	81	73	-5	20	Y	Y	N	-8	-24
	22	77	73	0	16	Y	Y	N	2	-24
	23	65	53	32	25	N	Y	N	0	0
	24	94	66	-4	27	Y	Y	N	-5	-20
Patch File Blender File	Object	Width	Height	X Off	Y Off	Sit	Walk	Get	F PoX	F PoY
	25	186	122	-32	-27	N	N	N	0	0
	26	122	69	-31	22	Y	Y	N	-8	-22
	27	68	57	20	22	N	Y	N	0	0
	28	65	53	-7	26	N	Y	N	0	0
	29	91	73	1	23	Y	Y	N	1	-20
	30	81	44	-4	52	Y	Y	N	-4	-20
	31	80	56	-7	41	Y	Y	N	-1	-16
	32	99	80	-10	19	N	N	N	0	0
	33	109	79	-8	21	N	N	N	0	0