object with blank material and constructor question

Hi all,

I get the feeling this is a ridiculously simple question but I can't find a forum thread for it. Probably because I am not exactly sure of the right terms to use...

I have created a sandbag in blender, and downloaded a suitable texture file for it (a jpg). I have exported the item as a collada file and exported it to the correct "art/shapes/..." folder. I also made sure that the jpg was in the same folder as the dae file.

When I place the object it just comes out blank, not even a "no texture" error. I have looked in the folder and there is a file called "sandbag.default.dts" which I am guessing is the torque converted version. I tried copying over the police baracade object from the chinatown project and that works fine with a proper texture, even though there is no jpg in the folder. I should point out I am a newbie at torque, no programming done, just trying to mess about with objects to build barracades and buildings etc.... Any help gratefully appreciated.

ALSO....another question.

I downloaded constructor, seems to work very differently to blender so am taking a bit of time getting to grips with it. I have one simple question, can you make "soft" shapes with it, or just structures? It doesn't seem to easily soften items (so for example I created a fairly simple sandbag in blender and then just got the softwar to soften it and it added extra polys...) can constructor do this sort of thing? Not asking for a step by step guide, I know there are tutorials for this and I am working through them, just wondered if this ability to automatically make objects more organic was possible in constructor. Even if not it is still a very cool bit of kit and exports objects perfectly into torque for me!

Thanks,

P.