Hi jsprogg, you are correct I was able just to use the nurbs' own UVs. It was just to practice this though... since you don't have much control over a nurbs UVs I thought it was good to be able to convert to polys, layout as you want, the convert back... if you were making a complex shape (a face, for example), wouldn't it be difficult to layout an image exactly as you wanted with a nurbs own UVs? I could be totally wrong here. cheers, gubar