i know this has been answered a hundred or so times, but i have this lamp 3do that worked fine until i decided to retexture it. now it shows up as a little default cube. what causes that again? it looks like they took the search option away for the forums or else i would have just looked it up.

That's often caused by more than 3oo surfaces per mesh. But if it worked and all you did was retexture it that's not the problem.

Most likely it can't find one of the mats. Make sure any custom mats you used are in the right subdirectory of your project directory.

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I had a similar problem when I was working on my CTF contest entry. All I did to fix it was to remove the template for the 3do, and re-add it using JED's quick & dirty template editor. Worked for me.

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thanks. i think i figured out the problem. i may have accidentally translated one of the surfaces when trying to stitch textures, because i caught myself accidentally doing it when retexturing my backup copy of the 3do. anyway, it works now, so thanks for the help