hi
You could use a single pix_image/pix_texture with separator to do this...I have done it a lot in the past.
The reason that pix_image doesn't share the actual texture data is that you can modify the pixel data with other pix objects...pix_image doesn't actually send the texture data to the gfx card, pix_texture does.
ah sure - this is very logical the problem with the separators is, that it makes modular programming (abstractions via patches) uncomfortable. i do not think, that it is a very good idea, to send the GemList-pointers via send/receive (on the other hand:: this looks like a good idea, now that i write it...)...you couldn't switch on/off the geos seperately (but then i had problems doing so when using long-time (weeks.months) gem-things
and i didn't think of manipulating the pixdata
mfg.ajk.sui hannes