I don't have time right now but here's some YouTube vids that should help get your started ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRsFAk-M_XI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=wrV_YFnOGzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s1VKqhb ... re=related

ship in pas.jpg Ok here's a simple example. I made the texture before I made the model. However after playing with it in PAS, I noticed something else, You can pull cubes out of mid air in PAS . You could build your ship in PAS and not even build a model ! Wings3D is available for Linux. I used Fra...

Doesn't Blender have a paint mode ..... Many times I've made a texture before I made the model. I use Paint.net, but you could use Gimp to do the same. I'll build and post an example today .....

check out my post in the tutorials ...
It's for MD2 export ... but someone suggested SMD format, I'm still working on a new model but SMD follows same rules as MD5.
Not too many posts for getting characters rigged in here.

You can find plenty of free models at www.sharecg.com . For a non animated model you can export .obj from Wings3D. You'll need a model that's UV-mapped and has a texture, and if it has a normal map or needs an Environment map (mirror/chrome) you'll need the codes from the Wiki in your xx.cfg file. F...

Can I Not have grass as the Default texture. Say I want to build a Spaceship, or Snow, How can I change the Default ?

The other "seamless maker" method is to reduce, copy, paste and flip. Its another option in Paint.NET, but I don't like because when you "flip", you flip the lighting direction for that side as well. It looks terrible rendered in a 3D environment. If you need to change the scale ...

Png is better quality and still decent filesize ... all are only 512x512 ... but you can convert to jpg if you wish ...

Afters some looking into .... I suppose the SMD format might be a better way to go for me ... as far as I understand, the .cfg commands should be the same as md5 with the obvious name change. However this raises other questions, and I don't need a link to anything linked in the Wiki ..... but unders...

After my tutorial on making seamless textures, I was asked to upload a few, and finaly got around to it ... you'll need to update your packages.cfg as per This Tutorial

Joes Textures