it is simple really if you have the cmpimporter. There is an option there that gets the textures out of the model and save it. That is if you are using ms3d...

And there is this other way too.... the incredibled UTF Editor... Open up a MAT file of a ship and look for the MIP0 (that is MIP zero) or MIPS in the texture library then export it like this:

MIP0 ---- filename.tga
MIPS ---- filename.dds

tga files can be viewed almost by any paint program
dds files can be viewed... i think, by photoshop only so far....AFAIK

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Thx for da info, much apreciated