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Using the Forecast enhancements as the baseline, beef up MDL7 to the most modern state possible, polish it, and freeze the format. After this, Conitec recruits a small team of beta testers with the specific task of testing a series of official MDL5/MDL7 plugins created for each of the major 3D programs. Create a user poll to determine the applications to support.
We talked about this before with Conitec. The problem is that you cannot just go and develop plugins for various pieces of software ... not without HAVING that piece of software to begin with. For example, you need 3D Studio MAX in order to develop and test a MAX plugin to export/import MDL5 or 7. Conitec, from what they said, was not willing to spend the money on a copy of MAX. I am guessing the same would be true for Maya, Lightwave, XSI, C4D, Modo, etc.
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Dan :
If i just need to place some static models with multiple textures.
3DS format really does the job.
So do the other formats. In any case, I don't know why you keep going on about this. No one is suggesting that 3DS support be dropped. Therefore, there is no need to defend the format.
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