Thanks for the archived links zeroy, unfortuanately all the links on the IWnation archive are dead. and i've seeen the teller mine tutorial a hundred times.

I'm having an issue with the coduo converter tbh. I tried using a custom shader to texture my model at first, but uoconverter always gave me an error saying failed to find shader. and when i try to compile with a default shader uoconverter just crashes when it tries to compile my model. I was hoping some one here may have came across this error during their time making custom models, seems like its hopeless.