View DDS files in 3D (modeling)

[quantie]

Hey guys, i'm new here.

I skin some weapons on Call of Duty 4 for myself, only i can see them ingame while i'm playing online.
I color the cars and that kind of stuff you know..

First i get the iwi file, and convert it to DDS.
Afterwards i open the DDS with photoshop and edit it.

The DDS looks like this:

And ingame, it looks like this:

You see, ingame the texture is modeled 3D. Duhh


My question was:

Is there a way you can see the DDS texture, wrapped in 3D so.. you see it like ingame, but you don't have to get ingame to see it first?
Hope you guys understand me haha

Thanks in advance!

-quantie

 

[Jhewt]

The only way to do that is import the model file into any 3d editing/modeling program, such as 3dsmax.
I recommend 3dsmax to do that, just because 3dsmax uses real-time textures in the viewport.

 

[quantie]

I downloaded 3dsmax now.. But it's harder than i thought.
I got 2010, 64bit.. what to do next?