Rooxon

i'm keeping my GOG version safe on USB drives, and believe me they were in a CD case all this time. It's also true that CDs and DVDs have a short life in comparison to other digital storages... something simply must have gotten damaged, somehow. That and issues with a modern OS were my only ideas, but i kinda ruled the OS issue out with GOG working perfectly.

Thanks smoo for replying 3 years later the problem was the 2003 CDs that got probably damaged or something. I bought a GOG version and there was no problem, or, it might be those old files somehow not working on modern OSs.

that's not the problem, problem is i am working on too many projects atm.

Oh i am working on not-plastic-looking switcheroos for them but all i can show you for now is this: But imo they are just outdated. Back in the day, this look was one of the better ones known in games (2004 for me when i first played it). Adept, Firebrand and Champion are my choices.

@@Archangel35757 would it be possible to leave it like it is by default? To use the filepath of the applied bitmap from the material assigned to a part of the model (i.e. i add a texture to the model from my pre-set working base folder, which is d:\base\models\weapons2\XXXX\tex.png - this then converts the path to just models/weapons2/XXXX/tex.png (converting backward slashes to forward slashes) without the need to write this as the material name). Having an additional checkbox for using Material Names would then work without conflicting with this, but also export without any paths assigned if one does not add any bitmap texture to the model. I never work with textures other than my own ones and i don't remember that i've ever used anything else as "models" for the initial folder, but in case someone would... I think a checkbox for "Use Material Name as Path for textures" would then be great. In that case it's on the artist to change the name properly to get it to work and it should also overrule the way i'm using, the smartpath way with a bitmap given via the diffuse channel in the material of choice. DT85 has also a good point. "Use material name as path" would solve his problem, he may be running into this sort of trouble as of late for DF2. But it's not as quick as the bitmap way. So maybe you could do this: Under the checkbox for "use smartpaths" you could add two additional round checkboxes (only one can be selected), where the top one uses "models" as starting path and the other "Custom:" and one can type in whatever they want. IF someone decides to use a completely new folder like "MyMod" which then contains everything he uses, it would make things a whole lot easier for him, speed up his export process when working with a lot of models. But these are just my thoughts, you're the master. Whatever you think is best. EDIT: Another thing i'd like to see in this plugin, if possible, is to save a default export preset of settings for each artist for the duration of the 3D Studio Max session. After a restart, the settings would be again the default ones. Would speed up processess when one works with several models at once using custom export options.