Doomsday Engine

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I agree, mainly because I think animation should be skeletal.
This will allow monsters to look at you instead of staring at a
fly on the wall behind you. It will also allow proper animation
of the player avatars in multiplayer (ie seperate leg/arm
animation for strafing, backstepping and shooting while
running)

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Skeletal models would be preferable, but one has to think
about editor support, too. Are there model editors capable
of exporting/editing the formats listed in the original post?

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I think skyjake should go md3 for now

once doom3 is out, in about a half year as it seems now,
skyjake could consider md5 (doom3's skelletal animated
format), since there will propperly be gpl'ed modelviewers
for that format, and most important import/export plugins
for all major modeling programms all the other formats you
need named above don't have that, expect md2 but that
deforms the mesh bad, and md3 (that was why I requested the
md3 format)

plus you'll have highly skilled modelers working with md5
once doom3 is out, that would benfit the doomday's model pack

you're right about md4 in fact the md4 loader in quake3 is
broken and it wasn't used at all

btw md3 can do eperate leg/arm animation with upper/lower
animation see my original md3 support request how it can be
done with doom

for people that really want to know about md5: there are
md5viewers (including source code) on the net. I don't think
it would be legal to use them as a source reference since
noone is suppost to have any md5 models yet

noctrun

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In all honesty I think half life mdl would be fine; For that there
is milkshape.

Im going to do some reasearch on different file formats and
try to find one that has flexibility and wide support.

Closing this issue because it is so old and 1.15 now uses libassimp to import various model formats, and the GL2 model renderer can do skeletal animation. Newer issues exist that cover the particulars in more detail.