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I've been thinking of making a actio/platformer for a while, but the characters I want to model would look ugly if they had to be animated in the .x or .3ds way. I really want to use mesh deformation to make the animation look more organic, but should I bother.

To put it shortly has anybody managed to make a game/demo with any of the new DBP supported formats, and does this arouse any problems??

Fletch.

a few of us in the past have created Skeletal Based animations systems which worked similar to Mesh Deformed Animation ... but since i've been making them i've tried 3 different ways to produce them as each particular type.

Probably the best way is a CosSin Distance Position & Angle routine - Take you skeleton (which can be a real object or not, and then Rotate Vertex within an Nth Area * (Distance / Weight) and move based on the same Weighting and Distance.

The actual rotation angle movement should be a Cos for XZ and Sin for YZ movement.

but to answer the original question to my knowlage no one has been able to get MDL working - however MD3 & MD2 no longer crash Pro on loading in 3.1 ... that said in 4.3 they can't be used

DBPro supports bone based animations read from .x-files. So all you need is a good modeller which is able to create bones and attach skins on an object and then export it as an .x-file.

I've heard that md2,md3,mdl and 3ds support will disappear in path 4 (will be back on patch 5), but mesh deformation can be done within .x files...