Hi Comp Dr open the material room. select the item you want to texture. click the new node optionsnew node2d texturesimage map click the difuse color C <--- icon drag to the uper left corner of image map little plug icon and release. a wire will now be conected to the image map node. do the same for specular color so you end up with 2 wires going to the node. first gray line in the image map node click the none navigat to your texture and select it. thats all there is to it to load a color texture. use a new image node for tranparency , bump map and so on. Laters hope this helps Vel