"That flipping issue is actually a good way to show that using numbered boxes may be better than a checker.

If you're using a checker, you can't tell if something is flipped or not; Maya just displays it as black to white, to black, and back to white, and...yeah...it all looks the same in the end"

yeah your right, learn something new every day isnt it true ived learnt many new things though, thank to the help of you i just cant believe i can finally do BASIC texture, wooo