I am writing a program that will extract information out of the Unreal Tournament .T3D map format and have a few questions. I''m not sure how advanced this really is but its certainly more detailed than my C++ books cover. The data looks something like this: Begin Brush Name=Brush Begin PolyList Begin Polygon Origin -00064.000000,-00064.000000,-00064.000000 Normal -00001.000000,+00000.000000,+00000.000000 TextureU +00000.000000,+00001.000000,+00000.000000 TextureV +00000.000000,+00000.000000,-00001.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,-00064.000000,-00064.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,-00064.000000,+00064.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,+00064.000000,+00064.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,+00064.000000,-00064.000000 End Polygon Begin Polygon Origin -00064.000000,+00064.000000,-00064.000000 Normal +00000.000000,+00001.000000,+00000.000000 TextureU +00001.000000,+00000.000000,+00000.000000 TextureV +00000.000000,+00000.000000,-00001.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,+00064.000000,-00064.000000 Vertex -00064.000000,+00064.000000,+00064.000000 Vertex +00064.000000,+00064.000000,+00064.000000 Vertex +00064.000000,+00064.000000,-00064.000000 End Polygon ... End PolyList End Brush I think i could go in there just reading the 1st string then checking it in a function to see what has to happen next, then if its a vertex or something read in the next point, convert it to a float and use it... but it seems like there would be an easier more elegant way then using lots of special cases. Dr. Jones