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<< From what I can see in TSE this is the only way to apply mapping co-ordinates _easily_, a direct equivalent of the "mapping type" , "mapping scale", "mapping orientation" metaphor used in the main body of 3DS is not brought to the surface in TSE for you to manipulate. >> Please call the Autodesk Faxback service and request FaxBack #756 for some additional insights into Textured Coordinates and 3DS. Also, several of my developers have used the program DUMP3DS.exe found in the following file to backward engineer the mapping icon placement/scale/etc. behavior. Section: Software Dev. Kits Contributor: 73172,1351 Size: 459846 Submitted: 8/11/94 Type: Binary Accesses: 115 Title: Code examples – FTK3 and executables Keys: 3DS FTK FILE TOOLKIT C SAMPLE 3DS3 FTK3 4 sample C programs, DUMP3DS, TUNNEL, POLYGON and DUPTEST, source and executable demonstrating the "database-like" style of writing/reading *.3ds files on the fly. Programmers… use the DUMP3DS.exe example to help compare a manually created *.3ds file with 3DS with a 3ds file created with IPAS/FTK/other (my favorite and most useful example). Also, note the creation of the material in TUNNEL.c.