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If you log in to a server where you have admin access (for instance your own server) as the user "admin" (you can set the password for the admin account through the cypasswd command) you'll see a new button labeled "use creator" on the window where you can create new users. Clicking on that will allow you to enter the world as an admin. From there you'll get some nifty widgets for creating new entities. You can also click on existing entities and edit them, move them, delete them and so on.

The bindings between an entity on the server and the model which shows up in Ember are quite complex.
To start with you have to have a .mesh file which can be accessed from Ember (info on how to convert into .mesh files can be found at http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/DCC_Tutorials). The easiest way is to create a ~/.ember/user-media/models directory and place your meshes there.
You then need to create or edit a Model which uses the meshes. This is easiest to do in Ember by issuing the command /show_modelEdit. In this case you probably want to edit an existing Model. Say what you want to change the model used for the sty. You can now select and edit the sty Model in the Model Editor. Once you're done (perhaps replacing it with your own mesh) be sure to select the model in the list and click on "save", at which point it will be saved to ~/.ember/user-media/modeldefinitions and loaded the next time you run Ember.

Now, the way in game entities are connected to Models is quite complex and is decided by this file: http://amber.worldforge.org/media/media ... delmap.xml
In some cases the model will have the same name as the entity type (for example the model "acorn" is used for entities of type "acorn") but in other cases certain Parts of the Model can be turned on and off depending on certain values in the entity (for example, depending on the "style" attribute of a mushroom different Parts are shown. Each part uses a different material, so you'll get a different look.
If you want to provide your own mappings you can copy the modelmappings.modelmap.xml file to ~/.ember/user-media/modelmappings and alter it and it will be loaded. There' s no easy gui tool for editing it currently though.

Al knows more about this. Did you run cyloadrules first though?

cyloadrules clears the old contents of the rules tables for you, so there is no need to make manual changes to the database yourself.