If you knew nothing about 3dgs before then, you can be very happy with your progress, you're right. I probably started when I was younger than you, so I didn't understand much (I was 12 or 13), but still, it took me a lot longer to get that far. Great job! I'll check if I can find the problems again... and maybe post screens

btw I really love your realtime mesh deforming! It could be made a bit more realistic if the mesh didn't deform quite as much, but it's toooonz of fun shooting those barrels
Micha

Edit*: Ok, i've tried it again. I can'T make any of the bugs that happend before happen again. I believe it was just because I had my laptop running all afternoon and it's ... well... it's not all that new^^... so, sorry... works fine now, including the weapons that were in weird locations...:)