[ART] Help! custom model's texture doesn't show up!

[Danny Boy]

Hey there... i have downloaded a custom model that i wanted to use in my custom story... i opened it in maya as i usualy do whit custom models... and i open hypershade to load the texture and attach it to the model... i export it into .dae and put it in my custom enteties file... then i make the mat file for the texture whit the exact same file name has the diffuse texture... normaly after i have done all this the model shows up texturated in model editor.... but this time it doesn't! if i select every thing... my model is there... but the texture doesn't show up! i tried every thing (or every thing i know... cuss i am really new whit maya so i don't even know how to model correctly in it.... i just know how to apply a texture to a model) but nothing worked... can some one please help?