All  the other apps: maya,softimage, rhino,lightwave are great comercial apps  wich don t have an exporter for CS, thought you can still use them to model,  UVmap , and  texture.

Actually maya does have a CS Exporter just not a cal3d exporter. The CS exporter was a bit out-dated but CyaNox i belive is updating it to support newer meshtypes and iron out the bugs etc, plus Dentoid was working on a CS canvas inside maya for realtime previews etc, althought it is moreso for his own project it is hoped that he will make the CS part of it available when it's ready.... we hope. Here is a preview for all those who havnt seen it:

http://dentoid.mine.nu/crystal%20space/crystalmaya7.jpg

I've also heard rumours about a lightwave exporter under construction for a project.

I made some minor changes like adding a link to the CVS version of win32 libs and tutorial incase they wanted that, and moved something into the header. It is now approved and can be seen on the articles page. i also changed it from "Make -k all" to "jam" because CS doesnt use the make system, make just calls jam in CS anyway. also i changed it so that it's using the new renderer because it's now default, best to get people to use it.

As he said the server went down, but luckily thebolt was quick to remedy this, you should be able to submit this tutorial now!

I hope you dont mind, i changed the article icons to be consistent with their topics just makes the article page a little neater.

It does work but it's the other way round keen, it's actually crystalspace IN WxWindows, for example something like Cstudio uses it. It isnt actually able to be used like a gui.

Well, the engine is able to use CG format shaders using a type of bridge XML shader to pass on information from CS to CG code, also what you're talking about already exists in CS (if you're looking for a textrure+cubemap then there is that shader in the shader gallery) but if you want no texture ontop of that that shader comes with CS in data/shader/reflect.xml also my XML tutorial PART 1 has a part about adding shaders to your materials and how to find out what shader variables you need, so check it out.

Good well i still have 2 more parts to the tutorial 2: Sectors and 3: Triggers and sequences

Applying an already existing shader to a mesh factory is now covered in Part 1 of my XML map file format tutorials. Also the New Renderer Docs are nearing completion and that has a good shader/renderloop tutorial in it so i think we'll have to leave this one upto the experts

I think thats the way keen has created each of the galleries, you need to be an Editor to add a picture to those gallery's but i made the shader gallery open to all when i made it.

how to write them or how to apply them in materails?  

Thanks Cyanox, it's now posted using you're advice. Tell me if you spot something that doesnt sit right in the article.

Yes there has been talk about this on the mailing list, i'll search it later and see if i can find what it actually resulted in. Also, could i ask that you register in case we have too many "Guests" floating around.

Okay ive added a tutorial like Keens about CVS on windows but with WincVS.

I'm having trouble with the World Format breakdown tutorial becasue when i try submit it it reads the XML as HTML but if i say to not include HTML then it just deletes it from the page entirely. Perhaps i will have to post it on an outside link which i don't think would be fun or just make it a file available for download via the article link, i dont know.

i also added a few more shader pictures from dentoid.

Ahh yes, never fear Keen seems not to have changed the re-direct to thebolts server yet, so after i added stuff they will have to do another database migration when keen gets back then he'll have to change the tk redirection then it should be faster.

I'm reporting in, I added my Biggish terrain picture to the gallery and am also half way through writing the cs world file breakdown article.

Also, i added a shader file gallery for all people wanted to upload shaders. I also uploaded a shader from Xotic created by res2k and also added a shader picture gallery and added 2 pictures from the fur-shader which can hopefully be uploaded from sueastside at a later date.    hope i havnt abused my privledges here