ok the engine shows no model, I amde a small action to remove the transparency, and buit and ran the level...still no model. Any ideas? maybe what I think are textures are not textures? here is what came with it:

mike.3ds

Text000.bmp

Text0a0.bmp through Text0a9.bmp

Text0aa.bmp through Text0af.bmp

Text0b0.bmp through Text0b9.bmp

and a bunch of sets with the same set up...all the way to the bottom of the list, they look about the same ending with Text125.bmp and no other files...so where do I go from here? If I have to do uv maps and such that's ok, but will need a little help with it...I have blender and milkshape 3d 1.7.10 but no idea how to do UV and such.

again this is all just for testing it out..see what the steps are, and how to go about importing a model fro 3ds to 3dgs mdl7 or whatever is best