Hmmm... Well, I have Painter 6, and I never noticed that it opens Photoshop files. I guess I should have figured that, but I never use anything other than jpg, bmp, gif, tga or tiff. Well, thanks for the info, DigArts and Bill. :) I'll have to look into this. Oh , and Vue most definitely does allow for 2D texture mapping. Does an outstanding job at it, for that matter, but only with UVW-mapped meshes. It's own native format will deal with 2D textures, but not as well, although the plants and tres in Vue will take an enormous variety of custom texture maps, if they're set up right.