heyas; exhibit a, on the left: an attempt to make a mortared stone wall kinda texture. the armory in baltimore had a really cool texture of big rock chunks in mortar; they really stuck out from the wall. this is what i'm attempting to capture here. i'm doing okay, i think, but i cant figure out how to make the stones bigger and the spaces between the mortar smaller. how do i get the white/black parts of the function to shrink and grow at my whim? ;) exhibit b, on the right: this is proceedural brick texture i managed to come up with, and i was real proud of it, too. er, then this morning i remembered that bricks are laid in offset rows. in ray dream there is a way to make a checkerboard of offset stripes to do this, but how in vue...? also need help with some wood textures. (or to be inundated with some wood texture collections ;) ) and, finally... i made some new directories under the vue materials directory, but they dont show up as categories in the materials loader. same deal for objects. dont tell me i'm stuck with only those few categories! :(