Hi there i have problems reading the materials from the file here is how i do it //read number of materials fread(&numMaterials, sizeof(ushort), 1, file); pMaterials = new MS3DMaterial[numMaterials]; //read materials for(i = 0; i < numMaterials; i++) { fread( pMaterials.name, sizeof(char), 32, file); fread( pMaterials.ambient, sizeof(float), 4, file); fread( pMaterials.diffuse, sizeof(float), 4, file); fread( pMaterials.specular, sizeof(float), 4, file); fread( pMaterials.emissive, sizeof(float), 4, file); fread(&pMaterials.shininess, sizeof(float), 1, file); fread(&pMaterials.transparency, sizeof(float), 1, file); fread(&pMaterials.mode, sizeof(char), 1, file); fread( pMaterials.textureFileName, sizeof(char), 128, file); fread( pMaterials.textureAlphamap, sizeof(char), 128, file); logmsg(pMaterials.textureFileName); //ms3d 1.5x relative path if(strncmp(pMaterials.textureFileName, ".\\", 2) == 0) { strcpy(pathTemp + pathLength, pMaterials.textureFileName + 1); strcpy(pMaterials.textureFileName, pathTemp); } } //——– now my texture loader saiz that it can''t find the textures and this is what my texture loader reads $øwøT÷wÿÿÿ\heart.tga – texture file name of material no: 1 – wrong no texture – and the the second material doesn''t load – which is also wrong now i know the model only has 2 materials… i whent and checked in the milkshape editor the rest of my model loads perfectly, only when reading the materials is a problem any ideas </i>