diff --git a/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/data/m3d/texturemodel/Mesh.java b/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/data/m3d/texturemodel/Mesh.java
index ba7ac15c4..9beeee9ab 100644
--- a/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/data/m3d/texturemodel/Mesh.java
+++ b/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/data/m3d/texturemodel/Mesh.java
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ public Mesh(float[] positions, float[] normals, float[] tangents, float[] bitang
 
     // Calculate face normals
     // ic increments by 3 because a face is defined by 3 vertices
-    for (var ic = 0; ic < this.idx.length; ic += 3) {
+    for (var ic = 0; ic < this.idx.length-2; ic += 3) {
       if (normals == null || normals.length == 0) {
         // Add zero vector if there are no vertex normals
         this.facenormals.add(new Vector3f(0f, 0f, 0f));
diff --git a/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/extraction/decode/m3d/TextureModelDecoder.java b/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/extraction/decode/m3d/TextureModelDecoder.java
index ef662b0a3..29dd84542 100644
--- a/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/extraction/decode/m3d/TextureModelDecoder.java
+++ b/cineast-core/src/main/java/org/vitrivr/cineast/core/extraction/decode/m3d/TextureModelDecoder.java
@@ -71,16 +71,16 @@ public Model getNext() {
         try {
             model = ModelLoader.loadModel(this.inputFile.toString(), this.inputFile.toString());
         } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
-            LOGGER.error("Could not decode OBJ file {} because one of the tokens could not be converted to a valid number.", this.inputFile.toString());
+            LOGGER.error("Could not decode file {} because one of the tokens could not be converted to a valid number.", this.inputFile.toString());
             model = null;
         } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
-            LOGGER.error("Could not decode OBJ file {} because one of the faces points to invalid vertex indices.", this.inputFile.toString());
+            LOGGER.error("Could not decode file {} because one of the faces points to invalid vertex indices.", this.inputFile.toString());
             model = null;
         } catch (TextureLoadException e) {
-            LOGGER.error("Could not decode OBJ file {} because one of the faces points to invalid vertex indices.", this.inputFile.toString());
+            LOGGER.error("Could not decode file {} because one of the faces points to invalid vertex indices.", this.inputFile.toString());
             model = null;
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            LOGGER.error("Could not decode OBJ file {} because an unexpected error occurred.", this.inputFile.toString(), e);
+            LOGGER.error("Could not decode file {} because an unexpected error occurred.", this.inputFile.toString(), e);
             model = null;
 
         } finally {