Firstly, thanks a lot for the guide - I've managed to get some custom tiles working

. I'm having a bit of trouble with animations/paperdoll gumps though. I'm trying to add a custom animation rather than using an existing one. (The Sea Jewel Shield from the UO-Forever website - their stuff is gorgeous!) I downloaded a .MUL and a .UOP file from there but I don't really know what to do next with it.
I followed the steps with a wearable which doesn't have a custom animation - it was a scabbard. It didn't show at all when I equipped it if I put no animation details in, so I tried putting in the bodysash animation. That worked, but it showed as a bodysash on the paperdoll gump as well as just on the ingame animation rather than the new scabbard paperdoll image.
I've also got some .VD files from the uo-pixel.de site for new mobiles and I can't figure out how to use those either. I tried adding the .VDs in the anim tab in mulpatcher, but they still don't show ingame - I get a skeleton image instead. Sorry to be so crappy and useless - any help would be greatly appreciated!
oh, and the new link for UO-Graphics is
http://uo-graphics.uo-francophone.net/index_en.php 