Jace11, maybe german ubi-forum, but 9th flotilla is very chilly.
lurbz, no way! Keep up the good work, because i will do this tool in first to be used by 3DArtists. These people don't need to know everything like these damn 64 bit ID.
In germany, we would say "the sparrow in your hand is better than a pigeon on the roof".
The problems concerning the textures is only the first part, the next are the datanodes(6 and 11) and the 3ds fileformat.