Is it possible to use 3D studio VIZ to do renders like these? Well, actually I know it is, I've already imported the .3ds files into VIZ, but the materials don't carry over. Do I have to manually reassign all the materials, or is there some better way to do this that I've missed?
Thanks in advance for the help

you have to make the materials by yourself

Thanks for the response. That's what I was afraid of LOL. I thought I had read something about a MAX plugin that brought everything over, including materials, but I must've read wrong. Oh well, *goes off to assign materials*

there is a cmx importer for 3dsmax 7 i think its 7, but i have never gotten it to work

and if you know how to program, there is a section on lfs.net of how to open cmx files (or something like that lol)