Ive been studying DX for awhile now, and Im confused on something. First, the facts as I understand them (correct me if im wrong.) 1) texture images have to come in a size of a power of 2. (2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc... pixels wide/high) 2) Its a bad idea to have textures above 256x256, as some cards dont support 512x512 and up Which leads me to my question : suppose I have a mesh thats not perfectly square, like a long spaceship, how do I go about surfacing it? It needs to be fairly detailed (large map),and the part of the texture that ends up beyond the edge of the mesh seems to be a waste of memory since its not seen. I suppose I could surface it with alot of smaller textures, but how many textures is too many to have on screen at once? Out of curiosity, how many textures does unreal tournament or dungeon siege have going on at once?? -Jason