Questor, Most apps that deal with .obj files can handle missing normal vertices - as long as the indices are not present as well. I also don't doubt you when you say that the apps you've tried also handle corrupted .obj files (illeagally formatted, not-to-spec, whatever you're comfortable with ;)). As a programmer, I have done extensive work with the file format and have run across a LOT of different ways that programs (and users) tend to create corrupted or mal-formed files. My point is - if you know that what you're doing is not correct, then why not do it the correct way? Why add one more source of poorly formed .obj files to the mix? It's easier to use something like UVMapper to remove the normals anyway shrug. [sorry, it's just a sore spot for me, after fighting through countless special-case coding to handle corrupted .obj files]

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