I created a model of a house in Max with photographs mapped onto each of its outside walls. Then I load the .mtx into Stream Tuning Studio and load up the textures in the .mts... but when I merge two or more of the textures and save the files, those two textures simply disappear (leaving naked geometry behind) on my saved .mts file. There's still a lot of stuff I don't understand in Max, so I'm guessing my textures were not applied correctly in Max... did I forget to collapse before saving, etc.? Is there any other criteria to meet before I can merge textures successfully in Stream Tuning?
Also, does merging textures and re-saving the file create a new single texture in the .mts that the .mtx references? For example, say the textures of the 4 walls of my 3d house are called house_TEXTURE_0, house_TEXTURE_1, house_TEXTURE_2, and house_TEXTURE_3. If I merge house_TEXTURE_0 and house_TEXTURE_1 in Stream Tuning Studio, do those two become a single texture, like "house_TEXTURE_4"? I'm guessing their material values (house_MATERIAL_0, etc.) would stay the same, but that the _TEXTURE values would merge into one that could be later manipulated in the .mtx and .html.
Thanks, any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Barrett

...actually, I've been playing around with it some more, and I think I figured it out...

thanks anyway