well... to explain my process....
Ive been taking 3ds images, converting them with poly2vox, and importing them into Voxel....
From there im a little confused...
I want to be able to load a blank template map (into voxel i assume) and from there, place the .vox objects on it, before saving it as .vxl

That's because of the AoS lighting. It treats everything on the top as superbright and then blocks directly beneath it get darker and darker. Also fag makes it look a little more gloomy and dark.

Edit: Oh, I reread your post. Idk really, but maps tend to look darker in a server than in the vox editor.

So im still running into one issue... i have the model that i wanted, placed in a map... saved it...

now when i run a server and join up, the map looks nothing like what i saved... more like a black map with a wierd reddish bar at the top(maybe something in conversion got messed up) and when i get close enough to see it render on screen, i crash.

omfg thank you... i knew it was something stupid that i was missing..... :P

Alt + F3 to export as .vxl from VOXED.

Also, you can convert .3ds directly to .kvx by Poly2Vox.

Convert the 3ds to kv6 via command line and then to kvx in slab6. After that you can insert it in voxed to get the vxl.

ok.... so ive gotten 3d objects converted from .3ds to .vox...... and i see how to import them into Voxel.... but how do you export it? How do you get it from .Vox to .Vxl so that you can play it as a map????