Does anybody know what the best solution is to export 3ds/max models to 3dgs .mdl format (for A6.6 WED 6.4) ?

I have seen the tool on the downloadpage but I'm a little sceptical about it because the models i want to export are using uvw maps + materials and the tool is quite old.

Does anybody know what the best solution is or whether this tool is still working with A6 and 3ds max 8?

Well i´ve heard about a .FBX format that you could export from MAX to MED.
I had never used it.yet.

But you can also export with the .3ds format and import in MED then you save as MDL.

As far as I know default materials from 3dsmax will not be imported into MED, but if you make one material as a bitmap file and make an unwrapp UVW maps from a bitmap file in 3dsmax they WILL be imported into MED. Just remenber after importing to MED go to the skin propriets and Set the alpha to 100, for some odd reason when importing .3ds format into MED the alpha goes to 0.

I tryed the max > 3ds > mdl allready but the bitmap textures are not showing up. I can't find anything about the fbx format though.

But what about this tool on the downloadpage.. does anybody have it or know whether is still working or not?

Where does the bitmaps doesnt show up? in the engine or in the MED?

One thing that you MUST do is after RE-importing the .3ds back to MED you have to go to the skin properties and set the Alpha in the Materials part back to 100. ( otherwise it remains 0 and nothing shows up when playing your game)

about the tool in download page, i never tried either, i might give it a try.

edit.: if you are talking about the MDL SDK in the download page, then sorry, have no idea how to work with SDKs.