I am looking for an alternate way of getting .blend files to be .3ds files than the exporter included within Blender. The problem I am having is that .3ds files exported from Blender are not readable by the lib3ds-1.2.0 reader that is used in Freestyle.
I tried exporting to Wings3D and then exporting from there to a .3ds, this worked better (ie it didn’t crash on the load, instead it simply loads nothing) but it still does not work.
Does anyone know of some other converters I could try?
New version of the 3ds converter in blender has been commited today (feb 1) and has fixed several bugs. Not sure if that’s what you need but worth a try? (in a testing build) There’s also a program called Biturn from Mirex. http://mirex.mypage.sk/index.php?selected=1
that you may find helpful. (second one down the page)