how do you add textures that are downloaded to your editor???

There is an "adding custom textures" tutorial in the CoD section. Read it... it will answer your question. (Just skip the texture creating bit).

good timing....ok i got a question...i tried to make heads or tails of that tut but idk where to put the actual image i want to use for my texture...

Go to your uo/textures folder...
Create a new folder that you can easly recognise in the editor and put your textures there...
(ex. uo/textures/my textures/ - )

Make sure you put the textures in a 'textures' folder in your pk3 file, otherwise the texture wont show up in you map....

thanks...that was a lot more helpful than the tut i found (also the tut was for making your own textures and also for cod2)

a couple of the textures i downloaded are in teh .rar format, how do i get em so that they will work in cod rad??

ok extract those textures to your desktop
create a new zip file, call it zzz_textures.zip or something
make a folder in that called "textures"
in that make a new folder called "custom", or anything you like
put your textures in that new folder
change the extension of zzz_textures from .zip to .pk3
finally, put the pk3 file in your call of duty/uo, or call of duty/main folder. (also copy the pk3 and put it in the flare workaround folder)

The new textures should appear in Graydiant then

what and where is this flare workaround folder?

Read the compiling for UO tutorials. It's used to make the flare part of the compile (which adds the lighting) run correctly.

oh, ok
see, i dont normally worry w/ lights until im near the end of making the map really