Textporter or somthin

Ok I have made a pretty intracit model and I wanted to know what is the best way to skin it. For starters, i looked at nicoli's tut and he said to use the screenshot method and I saw a textporter tut on the internet and that looked... fun.

Ok! so here is my point, why do all the tuts use boxes! Wouldn't textporter take alot longer with a lot of diffrent shapes and what not? I don't want a lazy "go look at the tut." I want some great fella to tell me in detail what the hell I am suppose to do.

One more thing, my model is in many, many, many layers. Should I unite them all for creating the animations or skin?

Thank you ahead of time, if you help me out... I will like you very much:foot:

P.S. I use max5