love hate relationship with maya

AGH.
i'm sitting in the computer room all on my lonesome making seeds and seedlings in maya and nibbling on peanut m+ms and am very much getting miffed with how i can't figure out how to import textures with transparancies. rah.
also, i can't figure out how to render in wireframe mode, which is something i want to possibly use... rah rah rah. so far i've just been converting screen grabs to b+w to make some nice stuff to use on my website.

i think i'm going to use photoshop and flash to make everything look more nice and textured, cos i want there to be lots of lovely texture dammit. i want to use graphite rubbings of leaves and stuff scanned in and made all colourful, but alas the park near me is a bit too well maintained. luckily i'm going home in a few days and there's loads of dead leaves around there.

i like how i have flash at home. it's good.






i think i'm going to have to create the environment in flash, i'm just getting too frustrated with maya! i don't have enough time to faff around with it enough to get something i'm happy with, so i'm just going to use it to create the smaller elements (flowers and seeds and stuff), although i might attempt to make a branch in maya tommorow.

hmm... damn my brain having ideas above my abilities... well i don't think my idea would be that hard to do, it's just maya is being annoying.