"Also, my flatmate has an unregistered copy of 'Ultimate Unwrap'. Would this do the job? Whenever I try to load an exported .3ds file from wings, it says 'Model has no UV coordiantes'."
A 'Model has no UV coordinates' message is normal since you didn't assign any UV coordinates. You can't use the unregistered version of Ultimate Unwrap because it is save-disabled, but I highly recommend purchasing. It doesn't cost that much and has MANY features that are very useful for game development in general and Blitz in particular. If you really don't want to spend any money the free precursor to Ultimate Unwrap, Lithunwrap, is available if you search on google. But again, I highly recommend purchasing Ultimate Unwrap.
ADDITION: By the way, in a big coincidence I just gathered a bunch of screenshots for a tutorial on modeling in Wings and then texturing that model using Lithunwrap. I don't know if I am going to write the tutorial after all, but if I do I'll post it in the Art Tutorials forum.
A 'Model has no UV coordinates' message is normal since you didn't assign any UV coordinates. You can't use the unregistered version of Ultimate Unwrap because it is save-disabled, but I highly recommend purchasing. It doesn't cost that much and has MANY features that are very useful for game development in general and Blitz in particular. If you really don't want to spend any money the free precursor to Ultimate Unwrap, Lithunwrap, is available if you search on google. But again, I highly recommend purchasing Ultimate Unwrap.
ADDITION: By the way, in a big coincidence I just gathered a bunch of screenshots for a tutorial on modeling in Wings and then texturing that model using Lithunwrap. I don't know if I am going to write the tutorial after all, but if I do I'll post it in the Art Tutorials forum.