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Hi Jerry, << i am would like to be able to read all of the geometry, texture mapping, and keyframe data. Is this info available with the ipas developers kit?? >> All of the data that describe is available through IPAS4. However, if you wanted to know which bitmaps made up a particular material and any information found in the Material Editor's maps/mask section, the 3DS File Toolkit would have all of the above plus that data as well. Have you seen…. File Info for FTK3-C.ZIP 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