importing

i know this is prolly a really noobish question but how do you import ur models into map? i made a truck right... so in 3ds max i go export select .mdl\.mdx (used the bliz tools) and no errors except no skins or animation but those arent real errors... so i put the new fully fuctional .mdl and .mdx in the folder wacraft iii\units\human\truck\ and then in WE i change the path of any unit to units\human\truck\truck.mdl but when i try to place i get the evil green box and it say .mdl cant be found, so i try opening in wc3 viewer but when i click on my model i get an error... I know that the prob isnt no skin or anim because ive used a lot of animationless and skinless models (from other people) so what am i doing wrong? oh yeah i have 3dsmax 4.2

Well, I have the same problem and it has something to to with no texture. There are material errors, aren't? You must set the team color.

ok... so does just draging a texture on fix it? i already tried with textures... didnt workemote_confused

You must set the team color material.

oh... even if we dont want team color?

I think thats something blizzard does not thing about. My doodads have teamcolor, too....

ok... well, ive tryed that, (adding the little replacableID line in .mdl right?) but i cant get it to work, so can you walk me through it step by step?
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heres the .mdl

You do not have to work with the mdl anymore. You can do this in 3dsmax directly, but i do not have a realy working model on my own. Ready the document which comes with the tools. There a chapter about it. My english is not good enough to work through it.

okk thanks a lot :D

ok cant figure it out :(

OK, now I have a working model. Without texture but you can see it in the game with the doodad(!) team color.

ok... so how would one go about doing this texture thingemote_confused i read the .pfg (edit: lol .pdf) and did exactly as it says... the previewer looks fine but nothing works outside 3dsmax :(