I can understand that... I've got the exact same prob. I don't want to start the trial period on mine until I've got pretty much all my (forseeable) objects sorted, which of course holds me up on my maps or trying stuff out to get the best effect for maps. I've got some great ideas but unable to implement them because of the lack of an MSH exporter for mod tools. Do we know of anyone here who'd be happy to convert XSI -> MSH for us? Using a 3DS Max and a Softimage converter I can get things into mod tools but like everyone else I'm then stuck in terms of getting it to MSH. It takes a short amount of time to import XSI - Export to Pandemic maybe someone could fit it in. Failing that (and an exporter for mod tools) I can just see the current stuff getting used over and over with new textures etc..