ah, that's a pity. i've already implemented mdl5 loading(with skins and animations), and hoped someone could shed some light on mdl7

Im shure that can be reverse engeneered using some difference calcualtions.
At least to a large part.

yep, but it's quite tedious. or maybe you can advice using some approached making this task simpler?

Well not shure, I would start with simple objects, chaning parts and looking
wich part of the binary changed.
I think the structure or approach to pack data will not differ so much from
MDL5.

look into my blender exporter. it's python source that writes mdl7. should be easy to figure out.

the .blend format is a complicated memory dump of blender scenes. but there are libraries for reading it (i think somewhere on the bullet physics website).

writing an exporter in python probably is easier and more user friendly though.



(when i tried to export bone animations for the first time i couldn't figure out how to calculate the matrices correctly so i first wrote a mdl viewer in python that was able to play back bone animations. it was fun and it helped a lot in understanding what's going on.)

A RTS Prototype.

Hi, what I really like is the way you use placeholder Artwork for the level and GUI.

Its really helpful to concentrate on gamedesign in the prototype while
not predefining the Artstyle too early.

I just updated my homepage with a new version of MapBuilder (now terrain deformation and saving is really fine), wrote download/install instructions, and also added some new screenshots:
http://mapbuilder.zxq.net/screenshots.html
Due to Google Analytics the winner is Germany with 35.84% of webpage traffic, followed by USA, Iran, Turkey. Unfortunately nobody from 2 continents: Africa and Australia .

Hope u like it and play the demo

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F20oqgX0s78[/video]

Seems to be funny. I`ll play it for sure!