Is there a 3ds exporter that exports smoothing, textures, lights, materials etc. too 3ds format that works?
The exporter from
http://bane.servebeer.com/programming/blender/index.html
does not work correct.
Found some interesting stuff about python and 3ds:
http://www.aerojockey.com/software/dice3ds/
http://www.demonseed.net/~jp/code/threeDS/