thanks for the replies, I've extracted the textures from OOT anyway. I'm not such a good texture artist, but what gets dones works, I think I'll use alread made images and use photoshop to make them work on the model.
However, I've just started a Work in Progress on 3D competition where the prize is Bodypaint 3D 2.6, which is a very good 3D painting tool, it will allow you to paint directly onto the model with out UVMapping and has tonnes of tools, I have tried the demo and it is really cool, which will mean good textures are easy, I tent to refer to it as the photoshop for the 3D world. But of course I have to win first
I've almost won on these things 8 competitions a go when they gave away gentica 2 (A professional texture generator) but my computer went schizo and I couldn't finish, I mean I really loved what I was going for, Sephiroth beheading pikachu. I had the blood effect and everything ready, all I needed to do was finish pikachu and pose Sephiroth. (Kicks PC)
Minus the rambling, this is proberly my last update until I have confident progress on my competition work in progress.