Texturing Troubles

[Krallis]

im using the mod tool to make weapons for UT3 and upon trying to texture my first model Ive come across a problem. I went to get>texture then chose my texture and projection type for my selected object, I made sure the window was set to show textures then I closed the texture properties window and nothing happened. Why are the textures not working, I cant find anything in the manuals about what im doing wrong.


EDIT: I created a cube in the same scene as my weapon and tried to texture it with an image and this works. But I cant select my merged polygon model.

EDIT 2 : I take it that it doesnt matter If i get my primitive objects from a menu other than render.

[EdHarriss]

Is your model imported from another program?
If so, it might have clusters that came in with it.
(This can cause problems just like you are talking about)

[hike1]

check
http://terrymorgan.net/softimage_modeling.html

'texture a cube'

For more than 1 texture make clusters and texture them individually.