so effectively you need 4 times the space just to double the resolution! That is obviously correct. But what throws me off here is that strange deformation of "2". I would expect to see croped texture , but with aspect ratio maintained. My previous mention about that "wave" disp...

One more example how those textures were mangled. Original was somethinglike 92x92 and I doubled it. Here I distinctly remember that I numbered the texture with equally spaced numbers like this: 123 567 I got only 12 and that 2 already badly deformed? Ugly anyway. :P Wanted to make prettier. :roll: ...

And what if I am dead already

Try running the content of few randomly extracted files through TrID (online) :
http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
Maybe you will be lucky and ID tool will recognise 3D format.
Looking into file with HexEditor could give some hints too.
No guarantees though, but as above - pure luck.

This is what is found in the file : Exported from MAX file S:\ART\lores_models\vehicles\dagger\Exported\newdag_jg_vaportrail.max by jgabriel on JGABRIEL-A-98 at Thu Nov 02 18:56:11 2000 dagger-rotor03.msh Ë— * K):dagger-rotor04.msh õ› * K):dagger.mdl MSH is obviously a mesh. Reportedly Orbiter is us...

Very interesting , but still need more passed over this reply to undertstand all. Any way mucho grazias indeed :) . About that weirdness in display of bumped texture here is the sample I should perhaps bring before. http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4/TedPolak/TAWtile3.jpg Notice, that only 1/4 of ...

If it is just renamed format extension of something more standard in 3D, then format recognition utylities may give you a hint. Try running the content of the file through TrID (online) :
http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

Sorry to be a pesymist here. :( KMD sounds to me like "Konami model". Remember reading once article about some port of japanese PS console game to PC. as it turns out, the software rasterizer is the least of our problems... all I'll say is that spaghetti C and PSX assembly commented in Jap...

Going through my old posts and try update what I have learned since I posted the question. About that Excel thing maybe someone may find this helpful:
http://digilander.libero.it/foxes/xnumber_review_20.htm
I thought I 'd share.

OneOneSeven, your post was made as way back as Nov11. It took me more than a month to notice it :( .Sorry. Your stuff quoted is mind bogling especially jungle scenes. The prerendered lighting simply incredible. So thank you and I hope you around here to hear that. Actually, I have a question regardi...

Glad to be of help.
Kmd I found to be : "Tool for visualizing, navigating and querying Metis enterprise models."
Link to Metis http://www.metis.no/ dead

Perhaps take a look over here for some informations and further links about MGS. If known already, sorry. Dar format sounds to me rather like still some kind of compressed archive than 3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid

Gathering all informations about 3D format is one thing and puting them into file specification is quite another. This small echange of ours made me to find and visit some place which can serve as an example of proper 3D file documentation. Place I am talking about is Multigen Paradigm here: http://...

I am gathering all informations and materials pertaining to "3" format. Most of it is on SimHQ.com TAW forum , which so happen is temporarily offline.

the file format description This is what we are trying to do by our "home made" reverse hex engineering probe. But I do realise that this is not perhaps how the things should be done in most efficient and painless way. Is there any standard template for format description?I guess the answ...