Mike, you mentioned 3Impact and normal maps. Did you only try providing a bump map and letting the engine convert it to a normal map or did you get an actual normal map working as well? I'm trying to get the athene model used in Rob's demo and Ant's demo and it's not happening.
sorry man... i meant to answer this a while back, and it slipped past me...
the bumpmap solutions doesn't give me a decent looking dot3 representation... i tried it, but the results weren't to impressive...
i generate a normal map and use iMeshBumpCreate... and i don't let the engine create the normal map.
that'll work.. and it looks wayyy better...
Jeremy... i've still got my TGE license... and a few more bucks in the bank account... TSE is still a consdieration...
as is 'MAx3D...
--Mike