Another little tool I’ve been working on to help me understand how the different parts of the Texture and TextureAttributes objects interact. It is fairly obvious that I don’t understand them at all given that I can’t make the render change much no matter what I do in the controls. 
Hope to combin this one and the Appearance tool.
Note that when it first comes up you may not see the scene graph at the top. I’m having trouble getting the canvas to update when the window opens. Just change any of the controls and it will appear.
http://www.scottshaver2000.com/files/xithtexturegui.zip
http://www.scottshaver2000.com/files/xithgui3.jpg