Adding textures to .3ds

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Is it possible to load a .3ds mesh into Blitz3D and paint a texture onto it?

I've tried but it just paints the mesh in flat colour.

Also tried converting the .3ds mesh to .b3d then adding a texture but I get the same flat colour.

What is preventing the texture being mapped onto the mesh?