gMax file format

damnit too bad you can''t export with gmax

Load the tempest gamepack and export as MD3, then convert to whatever format you use.

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Load the tempest gamepack and export as MD3, then convert to whatever format you use.

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You lose the animation info though.

I tried loading a gmax file back into 3dS MAX R3.1...it got halfway there...it loaded the file properties etc. but got into a bit of a mess with the geometry. Given that gMax is based on R4 (as far as I know) I imagine that the file must have used some R4 features that R3.1 couldn''t handle - therefore I believe that the GMAX files are nearly identical to the MAX files.

I think it is likely that R4 would load this file straight away as a .MAX file (I think it handles gMax anyhow) - using exactly the same code to load GMAX and MAX files. I guess that either GMAX or 3dS insert a token somewhere into the file to indicte the validity of the file - and GMAX searches for the token and (depending on how exactly it works) either loads the file or refuses to load the file if the token exists.