There is a quick "hack" way, make your favorite picture into a DDS file, using a converter...

Get a file converter program off the internet, step 1

Also, if you are making a texture for an existing ship, use the original texture files as a template, using the existing configuration to plan out where and how your textures should go.

(yes, I have no proper program, XSI mod tool crashes my computer
Autodesk is the wrong format, others are exotic unworkable formats, etc

You could try changing the pointers on the Mesh to point to different files, I made a nice New York Planet from a New York city map, also used a Borg wallpaper for a nice Uber-City Planet (the planets are easy, the ships are a lot harder to match up edges)

I'm sure the next responder will tell you which programs will do it properly...

Thank you very much i will dl it and try it

Sorry about that particular file suggestion, I'm sure XSI would be better, or any number of other things... (Just installed .NET 2.0, so I will retry XSI)

I seem to make Mesh Maker crash (sometimes) when trying to delete polygons, so saving OFTEN might be a good idea...

If anyone knows of better programs for 3D (Autodesk works fine (It's the same format as MeshMaker), I just can't seem to get the file into anything that SINS will recognize), please tell me

Thanks Dec, I'll try CS3, and see what it does