Textures go red after a few secs?

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX]

Hi, just starting to work through the tutorials from Brsseb. I've a fair bit of experience with 3dsmax so I'm really just learning the differences between the programs. But when I try to map textures, I keep getting the same problem: when I load the external viewer the textures work for a short random time then all turn red, or sometimes start off red. The textures are appearing sometimes, and they do appear in O2, but not in the viewer.

Also, no matter how many times I select the left face and perform the same actions as I did for the other 5 faces, I cannot get it to texture.

[scousejedi]

hahahahahha

I did exactly the same as you and you will kick yourself.

This takes me back about 18 months.

When you have a face selected ONLY that face will be textured in the viewer. All other faces will be red.

Unselect everything and you should see the whole thing.

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX]

Cheers!

I STILL cannot get the left side of the crate to texture though!  It's driving me mad!  It just stays grey!
*EDIT*
The $^^$&£^ viewer was displaying everything from the back! its the right hand side!