This is fine for me (for now)... but actually I run into another problem. For some reason I cannot get shadows to appear for my .b3d file (I can texture it fine - so the child "body" must be a proper mesh - but for some reason it won't show shadows)... talking about this here:
http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=72345
http://blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=72345