I've had this problem a number of times with a lot of different models that I have found on the net and that I have purchased. They will imported exploded, imploded, deploded (no idea, but it sounded good) mangled, destroyed and so on. Sometimes I can reconstrcut them and other times, NO WAY. I inquired once a while back, I think it has something to do with the way that Bryce reads the file information and then interprets it. I have taken those same files, converted them (using Deep Exploration) to OBJ and have no problems. If there is a way to get these 3ds files to work, I would love to know.

Because I like to blow $%&# up.

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