Ok... here's the problem... I imported the object of the lighthouse (after having saved it as a 3DS file from TrueSpace 5.0) and imported it into vue... the object came in good... the textures however didn't. So, I attempted to create the maps on the lighthouse myself, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get the red and white stripe on the outside of the object... The main object is a hallow cylinder... In TrueSpace the stripe is a proceedure, not a map... the closest thing to it in Vue is vertical stripes but even they don't map to it. The entire object of the lighthouse is a bunch of glued together primatives in Truespace before it was saved as a single object as a 3DS file. Can anyone help with this? Thanks ahead of time. -=> Jim! <=-