Awww... nevermind. I've already found an example of a 512/512 texture, so now I can assume that if I work at 2048/2048 and shrink it down, that it'll be right. Sorry for wasting your time reading this, folks... the answer is, "yes, you can make larger textures than 256".

I'll have to go through the material talking about the limitations of the CMP Export plugin... I saw something about it not supporting certain types of UV maps... hopefully, this isn't the case... but if anybody knows what UV projections will cause it to crash, I'd love to hear about it before I put a lot of time into making a kewl texture...

...but this leads to yet another question... of course.

What is a lightmap, and how do I make one? I've tried to open the existing ones with UTF, but when I export them (as TGA files, since that's how they're labeled), Photoshop says that it "cannot parse the file". I assume that a lightmap is some sort of 8-bit grayscale that defines lighting... I'd really, really like to know what it is, and how to make one.

I assume that means that the files are either encrypted or that they're not really TGA files...

Oh, and while I'm asking stupid questions... does FL's engine care which way polys are facing, or does it draw them double-sided? I know it cares about flipping the UV textures and the ships, but if you can have a single face that's drawn no matter what angle the engine "sees" it from, then it'll be pretty easy to add greebles to things.

try exporting it with the DDS extention, some of the textures in FL us teh Direct Draw System for texture files.

fo rediting these however, you will need the DDS photoshop filter available at nVidia's website download area

Ah... I've gotten it... and yup, lightmaps are just glorified grayscales. Anything special about how they're named/called by the game? I saw something in the UTF editor that said Et_name, that seemed to be reference to the lightmap... do I have to add that by hand, to get these to work, or are lightmaps supported in the CMP Exporter? Just curious...