Textures not rendering

[bigpezzer]

hi,
I'm having trouble with my textures!
Having spent an age UV unwrapping in the texture editor, and although the texture displays fine in the viewport, upon preview / region / render the textured area appears black.
I've never had this problem before in XSI, I've just upgraded to v.3 - is there something Im missing?
HELP!

BigPezzer

[atyss]

Are there local materials on this object?

[bigpezzer]

i've tried a few things...

The texture is applied to a cluster...like I say, never had this trouble before...

weirdly, i've just added eyes, separate objects, applied textures to them (.tifs, regular spherical projection) and the same thing is happening at render time. The textured object appear as black phong style objects.
Its getting late and im pretty frustrated!!!