David wrote:

>I get confused about what MDL formats plib does and does not support.

We can import almost any MSFS *.MDL model - if it has not been
generated by gmax. I created a simply cylinder with gmax and tried to 
import it into PLIB and failed. I also tried the one gmax generated
airplane I found at the time and it also did not work. Unfortunately,
I don't really understand the MDL loader code and also have very
little time, so I did not look further into it. I asked Thomas
Sevaldrud (sp?) about it and he said he wuld look into it when he has
some time.

Apart from gmax generated models we can now read about 95% of the MDL
models. Some with problems like opaque props, very few with wrongly
flipped faces, one with parts missing that have obviously been
duplicated and moved, but like I said, we can read almost all non-gmax
MDLs. Also, it is hard to get back the original hierachie of objects
and Combat Flight Sim airplanes may come with their hitboxes
(additional boxes that you do not want and have to delete).

>All the best,
>
>
>David

Bye bye,
Wolfram.

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