Getting custom textures into Maya's hypershade utility?

[King Mango]

Getting custom Textures into Maya...

How can I get my own texture to show up on the left side of the Hypershade rendering window? (that's the only way I know how to texture....)

I did a search for the texture names that are already there but did not find anything useful. I tried to import but all that happened was the texture was displayed in it's own little pop up window and I couldn't figure out how to get it onto my model.

[SuperApe]

There's a different between Materials and Textures in Maya.
Create your Material, then Create the File texture (find your file)
You can assign Materials to objects in Maya, but not Texture files directly.
Try the MultiLister too, I use that more often.

[King Mango]

ok will do thx Ape