make sure the texture lock flag is not checked for the block

256MB RAM? 900 MHz processor? Seems like your system is a little old, but that shouldn't be the problem.

The texture lock flag is off. The system is a little old, but everything else seems to be working except this, so weird!

I can, quite considerably rule out your system specs as the cause. I'm sure there are users with 128 MB RAM and a 600 MHz processor that can scale textures.

For the fun of it, try this, to rule out the hollowed cube:

1. Create a standard block, not hollowed or anything. Pick a size, it shouldn't matter.
2. Assign a texture to this new block, pick one.
3. Try scaling the texture on this block to see if it works or not.

If it works in this case, you may have found a bug. Did you save your level as something other than untitled? This has been known to cause problems.

I already tried your theory. It works on non-hollow cubes. I don't see how it could be a bug, since this is a clean 3DGS install that is only hours old. I assumed it is MY fault, like I am doing something wrong... but it's so simple, I don't see what I could possibly do wrong! I just want an answer, 'cause if I can't scale correctly, I can't get things to look good.

Due to a bug, the surface jumps always back to the first surface you have textured. Lets say textured and scaled surface 5, when you 'Enter' the surface jumps to suface 1 and there you have not scaled so it looks like the scale did not work, but if you go back to surface 5 you see your scale.

Regards,
Frits

Frits, that is not the case. I have switched to every surface and there is no change. This is no fun!

Well in the picture shown in your first post is the face selected which actually points down. So you won't see it from there.

However I just tried it in my WED and have no problems at all.
Not sure whats wrong here.

(Commercial A6.40.5)

So you're saying that scaling works just fine with a cube that isn't hollowed out? This is very unusual indeed, something like a bug. For the fun of it, I tried it myself using a hollowed block (medium-sized) and a normal block. I was able to scale it without any difficulties. For reference, you can look at my screenshot showing how things would otherwise look:

Screenshot - note how the surface selected is the same one that is highlighted in 50% transparent red in the 3D view? This is what you need. Cycle through the surfaces until you reach the one you need. Surface #1 is almost always the top, unless you've rotated the block. I'm using 6.40.5 for this, after updating from 6.31.4 since I'm constantly swapping between the two.

I know I have the right surface selected. I have even changed EVERY surface and yet there is no change! I've done this right before when I used to play around with 3DGS (a loong time ago). So I know how to do it, but for some reason it just won't work. This is a fresh windows installation, fresh 3DGS, all of it.