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 The object hierarchy is copied 1:1, referenced objects are duplicated in
CINEMA 4D.
 The following material channels are imported: environment light, specular
color, specular settings (which are recalculated), transparency, luminance, color
texture, specular texture, transparency texture, environment texture, relief
(bump) texture, luminance texture.
 UV mapping is copied.
 Animation.
 Position, scaling, rotation and light sequences are adjusted to suit
CINEMA 4D.
 Textures can be renamed automatically on loading.
 So-called target objects loaded from 3DS (from cameras and light sources)
become axes (null objects) and are given the extension ‘t’, which is added to
their object name.
 3DS les are binary les and are not recognized by their extensions but by
their identier.
3D Studio Export
Regrettably, 3D Studio can cope only with lenames consisting of eight
characters plus a three-letter extension. Therefore texture lenames will be
truncated to conform with this restriction.
3D Studio accepts only one UV coordinate per point. Therefore texture
mapping may appear different after exporting in this format.
 All polygon objects, light sources and cameras are exported, NURBS objects
are transformed into polygon objects.
 Material export: color, luminance, transparency, environment, specular,
specular color, relief (bump), all with any dened textures. The mean value of
the texture channel is exported with the shader.
QuickDraw3D Import
 Light source and camera information cannot be read.
 The following objects are ignored:
Torus, TriMesh (new with QD3D v1.5); NURBS can cause problems in certain
cases.
 References (both internal and external) are not read.