   3ds file (not the standard question)
  kudi.netzgestaltung.ch/building.3dsi have downloaded this simple 3ds file from anywhere, i cant remember. it is a very simple starwars building. i can load it with my own 3ds class, but there is this well known local matrix problem, that the objects arent at the right position:kudi.netzgestaltung.ch/3ds.gifthen i tried out several other programs such as milkshape3d or the conv3ds from the directx SDK (makes x files). i thought that they should load the object correct, but it looked the same. now i am not sure if all these programs also cant load the object correct (i think because they also dont load the local matrix at chunk 4160) or if the 3ds itself isn''t correct. because i dont have 3dstudio, does anybody know a freeware program, or can anybody, who knows that his 3ds loader works correct (you dont have to say that you have 3dstudio), check it out for me? 
  just a nodeyou could generate a bounding box and move the entire model so that the center of the bounding box is as origin(x,y,z) ;  I loaded it in 3d studio 6.The model looks allright.btw: You can download a 30 day free trial version of 3DS Max 6 from their website.