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I have recently purchased 3D Studio and I have a few technical questions for anyone able to answer them. The major problem I am having concerns ending the program. When I select the quit command all I get is a blank screen with the message: "Memory allocation error cannot load COMMAND, system halted". Needless to say, having to reboot every time I quit 3D Studio is somewhat annoying. I have tried different config's, some with qemm, some without, and some using memmaker in dos 6. My system is a 486DX/33 with 8MB RAM. I have talked to some other users to no avail. Problem number two concerns the 3D Studio CD. How can I get the materials from the CD into the Materials Editor. I set the paths dictated by the information in the set file, and have accessed all other areas of the CD. However I still cannot figure out how to assign a material from the CD to an object I have created. Do I have to copy them to my HD? I hope not! The last problem (well more of a question really) is in scaling objects. When merging the supplied meshes they are not proportional in size when when the enter the 3d-editor. eg. an automobile may be roughly the same size as a pair of sunglasses. I know it is possible to scale objects to change their size, but can you group objects before scaling. eg. when scaling the mesh of a MIDI keyboard is there anyway to scale the whole thing, or do I have to scale every key,button,and knob separately? I hope these problems are simple ones to answer, and any insite would be greatly appreciated! \ Thanks.