trouble finding certain skin/mesh/keyframes and other issues

[0Ptical]

hello.. im having serveral new problems.

1. i need to find this keyframe.. the site that the info gave is dead...
male_cape_nobelt keyframes that was available at http://www.jikmeshes.com/Grenadier/grenadier.html
but not anymore...

2. i am having trouble with one of the skin/mesh i downloaded. I think the keyframe is a bit off... or something. The desciption gave:
mesh: Male_nightstick_shield_visor hexed mesh by zuludelta, available with the USAgent skin at newpowerinc.com and at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zuludeltaffskinz7/files/
I found the USAgent, and it said it used entwamedeila_fx keyframes. I found the entwamedeila_fx keyframe but in game, the shield was double layered with an invisible layer that makes the area the shield boarders also invisible... does anyone know if the problem is that the keyframe is wrong or has it been modified?

[detourne_me]

1.  you can use any male_cape keyframes.  i suggest any found at Renegade's site, or at NPI Meshworks.
2. what you see is an alpha enabled mesh, the keyframes are OK,  its just how the mesh was built.   are you having trouble seeing the shield?  it could be problems with your video card,  sometimes alphas don't show up correctly.

[0Ptical]

no, the shield isnt "not showing up" but it is showing up 2 times and where it is suppose to be "invisibled" is makes all things invisible after a certain angle

[detourne_me]

yup, nothing you can do about that...  thats just how it is, when Grenadier meshed it, he made it with two thin planes that are slightly curved so they meet eahc other at the ends.. it was a rounded african shield.  so as zuludelta alpha'ed out the edges of the shield it looks at though there are two shields, hollow in the middle.

[0Ptical]

the problem isnt that there are 2 shields, but the the invisible layer on it makes some of the area the shield overlaps invisible/see through at certain places when walking/viewing from a certain angle in game.. it doesnt show up like that in the character viewer, in game or tool.