Irrlicht Engine

A whipping would be delightful! I'm using java as it's the language i know best, have been learning it for 2 years at uni having known no languages beforehand. It was suggested that a C based language would be best but i figured that sticking to java would be best as i'm more confident with it than ...

smgr.addStaticTextNode() ?

That would work, you can look in the Shaders tutorial for more info, but may not be quite what ur after!

I don't think its the faces facing the wrong way, as then they'd be visible from the other side... and then there wouldn't be the strange thing that when the whole maze is loaded half shows etc. As for the texture thingy that is right actually, i went through a lot of stress to get them showing prop...

I've found another thread which dealt with this which may well help me out, i'll be back if i have any troubles though!