Can't work out how to apply textures

[Mr Songwriter]

OK, I'm a total mapping noob and I didn't buy the Special Edition of UT3 with all the tutorials on it (wish I had now) so I had a look for video and text tutorials on the web but the only ones I could find seemed to be for older versions of the editor, I've tried following the tutorials for the older versions of unreal ed but I keep getting an error message about there being null material references, could anyone talk me through creating a simple room.

[Wulf Sternhammer]

The main difference for what youre doing, and probably your problem, is that in this version you dont apply textures to the rooms. you need to apply the materials instead i.e they are the NEW "textures". In order to use a texture you need to apply it to a material first but thats beside the point.

Take a look for Hourences tutorials on Ued4.

[HykCraft]

In the new engine... you use MATERIALS first then TEXTURES. ;)

Another big change in the engine is... no more skyboxes! Yay!

[Mr Songwriter]

Take a look for Hourences tutorials on Ued4.

I Googled for them and came up with this:

http://help.hourences.com/tutorialsue3mated.htm

Which appears to be about Ued 3 - I couldn't relate what was in that tutorial to what I'm seeing in the editor, so I guess I'll have to wait til someone does some online tutorials specific to this version.