Ok...but if you take a texture from Genetica, you can only apply it as an image map in Vue, which is what you don't want to do if I read correctly. I agree with bruno...don't know quite what you mean here. An example would indeed help.

But I must disagree on one thing.....making textures from scratch in a texture maker may be easy....but making them from scratch in Vue is not. !!  

Also...and I'm curious....you say that you've imported bitmaps but that 'you shouldn't have to'. Why not? That's what that function is there for. One thing about Vue that sets it's material editor apart is the ability to use image maps at all levels and capacities. 

Yup...confused.

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