Very cool project!

This kind of explains something ... so although the obvious workaround is to get on the mailing list, I fear this would be too time consuming for me ...

Very nice project (and a different approach) here: http://interreality.org/projects/crystalzilla



[EDIT] I wish I would be reading news like this here, before I read it in other engines forums ... .

Is that what the WinGS or MSYS (or whatever they're called) are?.

yes.

Did you try this?

Unfortunately not.

But I'd start here first, and check out Devcpp later. From the error message I assume that the path the the compiler is not in $PATH? (which might be gone after you did the first compile with the instructions above).

Did you check this out?

I also somehow missed this Blender tutorial: Unwrapping Suzanne

Same here. Seems the download.php doesn't work anymore. Unfortunately I also don't have a copy.

aargh! should've thought of that myself ... thanks!

[edit]and yes - it does work!

I don't use CVS, I downloaded the file from the site. I am not quite sure which I installed though, I *think* it is cs98_004.zip. But I successfully compiled everything.

How do I get the version from an existing installation?

Never tried that before, and it's the same here.
[edit]partsys is a nice world, though.

Not exactly what you asked for, but have a look at this picture! It's from Ben Mathis' Website with a somewhat unsavory name :-). This website holds several models and very nice tutorials from this talented guy. All this is quite 3dsmax-centric but I think the techniques apply to Blender too.

What is the exact file name of what you downloaded?

You mean this one?. Looks pretty interesting, got to have a look at it.