thank you so much for your words of encouragement. I've been a lurker for years here, watching people make new mods, anticipating their release, playing with them. and now I've finally decided I'd like to get involved. The problem is I have absolutely no experience in any sort of modding, no coding. no modeling or skinning, no MS paint, but I've taken it upon myself to learn, and hopefully join some sort of team doing support work in order to get experience, before launching my own ambitious mod. I'm just a poor college student who needs a creatve hobby when I'm not studying or out doing sports, but I have no idea where to begin. I've downloaded Gimp on the recommendation of someone else but I'd be lying if I knew how to use it. How do I get started?