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I just got the bzworkbench but am having some troubles with adding proper textures and generally just figuring out how to add colors.. If someone has advice or an example world I can see that would be very helpful.
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That editor hasn't been touched in about 12 years and was never finished. I don't recall if you can even add textures with it. For simple maps it might work, or there's also WebBZEdit. For more complex maps with custom mesh objects, you'll probably end up having to use a modeling tool such as Blender and then exporting to .OBJ and converting to .BZW using modeltool (which if you're on Windows and need it built, I could do that for you). Wings3D can also export to .BZW format directly. The world format itself is just text, and map authors typically end up doing at least some hand editing of the contents.
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Adding to what blast has said. There is the option of generating maps/objects via scripts/apps, so if you know some coding and the .bzw format, you may be able to generate a map more easily this way. (It comes in handy with generating meshes or other objects in some form of pattern or random order.)

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