is he going to be able to be made solid as in frozen and alike or melt if a level is too hot
I'm still just feeling things out at the moment so not going to rule anything out. I'll be trying various things out and keeping in anything that works well. you might want to consider sphere mapping a texture to the blob
Not thought too much about the visuals just yet, as you can probably tell. I'd be very interested trying your sphere mapping code as he does need a bit of definition.