Cube mapping problem

I have a problem with applying a cube-map to a mesh. The mesh is in 3ds-format meaning that it will load it's standard texture automatically. As soon as I try loading the cube-map texture with the 128 flag, the application generates a runtime-error saying "Texture does not exist"... How do I fix this?

Load it with the correct filename. If its saying the texture does not exist in memory, then you simply haven't loaded it properly.

lol, that's not the case, since when I try loading it with any-other flags (spherical mapping for example) it loads and displays correctly.

Is your cubemap texture in the right format? Its been years but as far as I recall cubemap textures have to contain six equal sized, square images in a strip, and in a specific order; Left, front, right, back, top, bottom.

That might explain why only flag 128 isn't working.

spheremap, by memory, is a texture that's twice as wide as it is tall.

No, a spheremap is perfectly square normally. Regardless, he's using a cube map and GFK's description of six equal sized square images in a strip is quite correct for one of those.