every time i see anyone post the output of projectM when they load it, it starts off with

No Textures Loaded from /usr/local/share/projectM/textures

If I am not mistaken, textures are needed for compatibility with quite a few milkdrop2 presets, including one of the presets you have posted on your main page: http://projectm.sourceforge.net/images2/ratings5.png.jpg

Looking at most posts about projectM, there is no information or documentation that I have found about loading textures, and an install of projectM does not even include the /usr/local/share/projectM/textures directory. In an attempt to get some kind of texture loading I installed winamp in a virtual machine and copied the textures folder out of milkdrop, and put it in the directory where projectM says its looking for a textures folder. I noticed that in that folder, there is a texture called "cells" which happens to be the very texture loaded in the screenshot I mentioned above. I can see from your screenshots that it is indeed possible to load textures in projectM, but I have found no documentation on the subject and am lost as to how to get to that point. I have tried asking for help in the projectM irc and after about 20 hours i gave up when i recieved no response from anyone in there. I have built projectM with cg support and have all the dependencies installed, why is it still not possible to load textures?

Just to say that I face the same problem.