A Couple of Texturing/Shading questions...

[Beg-inner]

Hi all..   How would you set up so objects that are inside another objects volume or UV space, gets textured/shaded in the same way as the object that provides the UV/Material space ?   Here is a simple example.. 1. Create a swept Nurbs mesh, like an open tube, for a water leading tube or a Coaster track.. 2. With this tube selected, in 'Nurbs' Tab click on the 'Curve' Tool to create curves from the tube... 3. Now I want the texture/shader to look exactly the same on the Renderable Curves, as it would and is looking on the NurbsMesh (tube)   (So the Curves are not rendered in their own space, but are using the NurbsMesh´s)   Or is this not possible?=)   2nd Is there a way to let a surface "remember" and keep a spot on it, textured even after the actual 'Texture Mapping' has been removed ? Example.. 1. Character with a 'Texture Mapping' with 'Finite X Y Z' Set, and Lattice Mapped to each of its feet 2. When a foot with its 'Texture Mapping' is touching (so the ground is inside the 'Texture Mapping' Volume), it renders nicely... 3. After foot leaves ground, the texture should stay, for each step the character takes..leaving a trail of footprints...=) 4. Also user to be able to control if the footprint texture should fade out..and how   (Or is there a way of leaving 'Copies' of the 'Texture Mappings' for each step, each time the "Ground" is inside the 'Texture Mapping'?) Could this easily be done with scripting?, for flat grounds, so that whenever the foot 'Texture Mapping' have a certain Y value, a copy of that 'Texture Mapping' is created where it is..!   Or that the actual Surface of the bottom of the foot, is used like a realtime 3D painting tool, like the ones in the 'Material' Tab...?   Also would be nice if it was possible for Collision Detections in simulations, so it could make it possible that when objects collide, either or both of the colliding objects gets Textured/Shaded..in correct places..   Is any of this already possible?   Have you guys other ways of making this working?   Otherwise this would be nice if V6-9 could bring  =) (as well as Sound on impact, for easy timing of sound effects, so some basic Sound management would be nice in V6-9)   Any inputs and ideas on these things are much appreciated..! Thanks in advance   Take Care Best Regards Stefan Gustafsson ( Beg-inner ) A Proud Owner and User of Real3D and Realsoft3D..