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to import *.mdl files into gmax or 3d studio max,and if it isnt,some one soon will brake that scripted code,why did Microsoft make it like this?

There are ways to import the old style (FS98/FS2000) mdl files into the design programs.

If this were extended to the newer models made with gmax and FSDS2, you would see a sudden drying up of quality freeware models and an increase in file protected payware.

After all, it it becomes easy to take off someone else's model, change it a bit, and pass it off as one's own work, what is the incentive to produce quality work?

to import *.mdl files into gmax or 3d studio max,and if it isnt,some one soon will brake that scripted code,why did Microsoft make it like this?

If I might ask you ALROT, why do feel the need to import *.mdl into gmax or 3DS? What do you hope to gain by doing this?  ???

FSEdge

"IF" the *.mdl files were to "EVER" be successfully imported to Gmax or FSDS, then there would be a very good chance that M$ might change the FS series from open-source to closed-source (like the IL-2 series of 1C: Maddox Games).

As a result, we would all be greatly affected by such a sudden change. I thank god that no one has broken the code. And I also pray to god that no one ever does so ,successfully. Because I don't won't to see the negative effects of cracking such a code (like the one that Felix pointed out).