.3ds To .x

whats a good program that imports .3ds models
and exports them to .x??

for blitz there is no benifit or point to doing a 3ds to .x.
.3ds is an old format, no bones etc and, only segmented animation with limited texture names.

Milkshape ($25) is good.
Biturn (free) would work.
I personally normaly use Blender (free) for all my mesh needs. It is very good and best of all, FREE!

there use to be a tool in the directx sdk to do that.

yeah, in the dx sdk there's a small commandline converter that is capable of converting animation as well. I think its name was "conv3ds.exe", not sure tho.

Instead of downloading the huge SDK, you may try to find it somewhere on the web, eg:

Ok, I found it inside this zip file:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~xelag/3ds2x.zip
or from here:
http://francis.dupont.free.fr/coindev/english/direct3d/convert.htm

PaceMaker loads .3ds and exports to DirectX(8/9) format.

Doesnt blitz upload 3ds anyways?

go with what jfk said...

If you have 3d Studio to begin with, there are some plugins you can get for free that let's you export as .X

I think Panda is one of them... though my memory is kind of hazy, haven't done Blitz3d nor 3d Studio for quite a while (damn my daytime job)

Try this it's Free
and Fast being erased off the web.
http://files.seriouszone.com/download.php?fileid=198