I have forgotten to say that I implemented a new mipmap generator, which is a bit slower - but has a lot better filtering options. In fact I have converted and slightly changed a image resizer/resampler from graphics gems (I think it was gems 2). It supports more filtering algos like linear (box) or better filters like the standard one which takes a bit more time to calculate or the ultimate bspline, mitchel or lanczos3. The mipmaps look a lot better now... no more those nearest point mipmap. But just 24bit images are supported for this process as I have setup that as the basic value for the resampler. Well, it shouldn't be hard to duplicate the code for 32bit or 16bit or 8bit... very easy to do. I will commit the changes as soon as I can. -kk