Trouble with custom models, need tutorial

[Mr Robville]

Thanks a lot!
things are much more clear for me now.

I noticed that I don't need to make any collissions when the model is static.

I did another test with a smoking room, the model viewer crashed at first (probably because textures were .jpg aswell as .bmp) so I deleted them all.
but then the model kept crashing. Is there a polygon limit?

After I split up the model and this time exported it into the same folder as the one texture of wood I applied to it, it worked. but the texture was grey again. I'll try the .mat file now to see if that does some change to that.








EDIT---------
I can't load any texture in the material editor when I click on the"..." button, it only seems to find exstising textures. I guess all textures need to be .DDS

Edit2: The models looks nice but the textures look awfully stretched :>

The Model originaly has multiple textures, the UV layout is kept the same.
To see screenshots of the fully textured staircase, see this page:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/mafia-titanic-mod
this is where it's originaly created for.