That jpeg to object stuff is texture mapping. I know how to do that, but I wanted to make a jpeg into a material, though not necessarily using the DTE. I'll tell you why. I've come across some pretty good texture creation programs, but they only allow you to save your texture as a standard graphic format like a jpeg or a tiff. I want to be able to use the texture without using texture mapping if possible, though I think I may have no other choice.