CompuServe Messages

James – Sizing/placing of maps is much easier if you make sure there's no black around the outside. In an image program like PhotoShop, crop the map right down to the nearest pixel all the way around. In AAPro, clip the map as a cel and use that, rather than a GIF or PCX, which will use the entire screen. Then, in 3DS, use REGION FIT when applying the map and it will fit just right. If this stuff is old hat to you, PMJI. I'm inclined to think that a combination of Alan's and John's suggestions should work well. I'd create the text as geometry, render one front view (two in your case, due to the size of the object), twaek the resulting images, crop them down as mentioned above, map them on and, finally, throw away the text geometry (saving it in another file, just in case, of course) to save on remembery and rendering time. FWIW David Taffet