Texturing help?

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm bulding space stations. I want solar panels as on the ISS model.
What's the best way to assign the textures? Do I really need one block
for each separate "panel", or can I have one big box with the texture
repeated on it?

Using 3DS Max and Msh_Maker_v1.2.

Very temporary (untextured) pictures of one of the models at

http://dayspring.firedrake.org/roger/CrystalPalace1.jpg
http://dayspring.firedrake.org/roger/CrystalPalace2.jpg

(Oh yeah, I also want to be able to rotate _part_ of the station. Any
DLL authors prepared to help?)

Roger