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zturtleman / mm3d

Maverick Model 3D is a 3D model editor and animator for games.
https://clover.moe/mm3d
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Support Importing of .SMD format #33

Open hellfire3d opened 5 years ago

hellfire3d commented 5 years ago

SMD (StudioMdl Data) is a very commonly used format for 3D models with skeletons and also animations. Currently, a huge restriction to using MM3D is that it cannot import or export this format, and as a result MS3D must be used as middleware to convert and utilize the SMD format, export to ms3d and use in MM3D.

This process likely ends up losing information somewhere along the way, as importing/exporting ms3d files from MM3D is still imperfect. Support for the SMD format would be lovely and would seriously make this program a viable option for making Source Engine / Goldsrc models.

zturtleman commented 5 years ago

I added SMD export in 294e152c2baa41c16f7031de755c93ac4c2eb542. I plan to add importing later this year.

There are many MS3D fixes in Maverick Model 1.3.11. So using Milkshape 3D to convert SMD to MS3D and then import in Maverick Model 3D should work better.