I've been using Ultimate Unwrap to Texture models created in TrueSpace, because texturing in TrueSpace is rather painful. The problem I'm having is that when I texture something with Ultimate Unwrap, in TrueSpace, the texture looks extremely pixelated. In addition, when I attempt to render the object, it renders as a wire frame. Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks

Ultimate Unwrap ? I haven´t used it yet .

I just know that the native TS Unwrap tool is crap. Produces nothing than nonsense to me . So my advice is to keep the fingers away from unwrap . But i am just a little hobbyist ... :)

One for your pixelated look : have you set the texture resolution to a correct size ? Using a 1024x1024 pixel texture with a texture resolution of 256x256 pixel or even smaller will always look pixelated ;) . You can change it in the display options ...

I have no clue why it renders a wireframe. Maybe the faces are flipped ...

Well , i don´t feel that texturing is a big pain in TS , even with its native tools . You should dive into the UV Editor a bit. It´s fairly easy once you got the hang of it. This means, when you are using TS 6.6 ...

Here you can find a short UV Editor Tutorial . Made for Gamespace , but the one in Truespace is nearly the same :

Introduction to UV Mapping

One of my favourite helperplugins to cut the mesh into the needed UV areas is called Facemaster . This tool gives you a way to select faces with the same colour/material. Which provides you with a way to create named selections very easily without manually selecting around the faces in TS 6.6 . Just paint the faces with a colour, select the colour with facemaster, and convert the selection into a named selection then . Do it with all areas of the mesh, apply the needed UV space to the selections, and you are half through . This plugin is even more useful for earlier versions than TS 6.6

For some simple Meshes there isn´t even a need to dive deeper . Did you know that you can scale, rotate, move the UV space ? Select your object, click the Button for Cubic UV projection. A box appears around your object . Now rotate the UV Space , or scale it, or move it ,using the object rotate/move/scale buttons . You can also select a single face , and tweak its UV space around this way ...

I was able to fix this by setting my texture resolution to 512 x 512 in the display options.

Thanks