Thanks to all your help. It worked.

So what does it go wrong on the material scale i posted above and it shows too many black dots. How do i improve it? how do i make it look like the picture posted by gebe?

The model has been imported into vue as a 3ds model. Maybe it plays a role the different format? Maybe 3ds cannot be textured as a native Vue file. I have also tried the cube example as you mentioned and it does work. The exported file comes from sketchup. Thanks

rds, thanks for the tips exporting from sketchup to vue. Helped me a lot.

i have put a greater value i.e 2 but that didnt work either. any other way please?