I am working on a group uni project with 4 other collegues. We have to make a fully 3D third person game from scratch and we all have no real experience at all.

A collegue has our main character in 3D studio Max and we want to import it in to the engine. I have tried several times with no real success.

I am reading through the tutorials at the moment, but can any one step by step me through how to import a simple character model of a flying bird (that my collegue has made), from Max in to GS and keep the animation and the textures!


Similarly how do i go about putting this character in to the game? so you can see it from behind in a flying third person perspective?

Many thanks

Export ure Character as .3DS and import it in the WED

cYa Sebastian

there is not option to imprt 3ds files in to WED, do you mean the MED?

yes, you can only import MED (*.mdl) files into WED...

Import 3ds (or better .x) into MED first...

righty i do this but then when i put them in to WED there are no textures? Asny ideas.


The textures are in the same folder with everything else.

This is a common problem, though I don not know how to fix it.

Make sure you save your textures in a format MED handles (bmp, pcx, tga). MED does not handle jpg...

Also, make sure your models appear correctly in MED...

See this thread
I gave some ideas on that matter.
Hope it helps.

hey, i can get the max file to appear in the MED but if i try to do an engine preview nothing appears on screen, just blue.

Also if i try to import to WED still not visible.

I dont understand what your linked thread meant Demigod.

sorry for being so inept at this.

Your post title = importing max successfuly!, so i believe you havent imported max models successfuly into MED or WED.

Btw, before you can use models made with 3ds max, you need to find and understand a workflow between max and MED in order to use .mdl files in the engine.

Probably you are not seeing the model in MED preview because of two reasons:

1 - you havent pressed the zero key in order to free the default camera, or;

2 - the relative dimensions of the model made in max (units) are very small and you cant see it in MED or in the engine;

3 - even if you see the model in Med preview or the in engine, probably you dont have textures and no animation;

The link above tells you possibles workflows to "importing max successfuly" into 3dgs engine.

Right i tried exporting the file as a .X file from WED and importing back in as a model in MED but still no luck.

Is the MED as good as Max because it looks like I am going to have to get the lads to make the models in MED.