alright hammer, i wish i did have screen shots, but my keyboard is old and decrepid and i havnt been able to get the prnt screen to work. . I think my problem lies in the file format/size. Im doing the roof of a house. Ive used a repeating grey tile texture which wasnt showing up on the material. However.I just painted all over the grey texture with a bright blue, and the texture is actually on the material, just not visible to the naked eye. sigh. dumbass. I used about an 1100 by 1100 texture size for a piece of geometry that relatively isnt that big. which might have been the problem? the tile outlines were probably so far out of focus the whole texture just blured into a white/grey monotone when on the material in the hypershade.