Baron: Regarding the organic armor you want, I think that Pheonix's armor3 looks pretty good. Very hexagonal/honey comb like, and the fact that it is an irregular pattern with some 'missing' combs makes it look very organic... as if it was grown, and so has some imperfections. If it were re-coloured (colored for our neighbours.. er neighbors... down south) to some greens and browns it would be quite convincing (IMHO).
Good work Pheonix.
Edit: looking at it again, it is actually a perfectly repeating image (five fold symetry and all that) but the lighting gave my eye the impression that things were not perfectly symetrical. The "nubbin" where the repeating facets intersect is of a slightly different size, which convinced my eye that there were additional irregularities. I still maintain that it looks organic, especially on first glance
[ June 19, 2002, 17:19: Message edited by: jimbob ]