Okay... many MANY thanks to Incarnadine, because without his kindness I wouldn't have any of my Vinloi models at all.

I now have all 8 cities, and both spaceships back, but as .obp's only.

I have however found out how to prepare these models for export - i.e. so that the export button isn't greyed out.

BUT, trying to export as .obj - or as .3ds and Bryce6 just hangs up in the middle of the process.

I have succeded in exporting as an AutoCAD file, it's either .dfx, or .dxf - can't remember which.

Point is, I can't then import that into Wiings3D, to re-convert it into a normal .obj.

***Now, does anyone know of any progs out there that can convert a dfx...dxf... file into an .obj file?

In the meantime I have been modelling like crazy and have re-created the street, the lamps, the street drain, the speeder, the towerhouse etc etc, I just don't want to have to re-model the spaceships or the city blocks if I don't have to - they are fairly complex, you see.

Can anyone help?

Hexagon will import dxf and export obj.

Oh brilliant, I've already got Hex, thanks Ricky.

Do you have your Vinloi.mat file?

AS, I have one of them - an early version.  Incarnadine sent it to me, the sweetie.  Why?  Do you have a version too?  Not sure if you have the same version (if you have one at all), what I don't have is any version of the street model... Unfortunately.

Just the 8 cities and the 2 ships.

2-3 days ago, I re-attached an external drive that I thought only had my mp3's on it.....and your stuff was sitting on that drive. Just making sure you had got back (some) of your stuff.

The Vinloi.mat file I have is 45.1 Mb unzipped, and has 60 mats inside of it.

It sounds a lot bigger to me, the one I have is only 15 megs.  So is there any way you can get it to me?

It probably is bigger, even zipped up its 26.8 Mb
I'll get it to an FTP and get you the link.  ;o)

Okay, I sent ya the link!

Yaaahooooooooo!  Wonderful - It's different to the one Incarnadine sent me, lots of the mats are the same but there are a few different ones too, this is great!  Thank you so very much mate, and just in time before I return to college for two weeks internet download deprivation.

Cool!

*Just a side note - I've now checked everything. No other Fran stuff hanging out on any of my backups.

Aw shame... but thanks for looking.