Oh yes, I've experienced forums where mods would close discussions on other engines, I also encountered a fanatic userbase. So I'm a bit more careful if it comes to mentioning other 3D engines. But I'm glad to hear that this forum is open to such discussions. By the way, thanks for the welcome and the compliment !

Another question which is somehow related to my inquiry.
Is it possible in A7 to use multiple shaders on, let's say a character ? In DBPro I achieve this by applying shaders to different "limbs" subobjects. I divide the model into different parts for clothing (normal map), skin (skin shader) and hair, but export it as a single .x file. Then I would read out the specific "limb" numbers of each subobject and apply the shader to that "limb". Sorry am just not yet familiar with the mdl format.

Thanks !