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I did consider the dforce ropes when I saw them but chose to wait til they went on sale.

As far as blood, I certainly only want "realistic" in a hyperbolic way, sort of like a movie squib, or when a gigantic space ship looks "realistic", even though none exist! :D

I have gore shaders, and they're ok-ish. You have to do a lot of tinkering with surface properties. Those linked ones look very nice! I'll have to check into them, thanks for the heads up!

And yeah, zbrush is far, far superior to hexagon… and waaaay more expensive! I would LOVE to get into zbrush! I'm gonna give blender a real looking into, too. You can import/export assets fairly easy into daz, and I really do love their models.

Good tips!