3D Formats

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Model File Formats

Model File Formats

Name	Developer	data type.	Skeletal Animation	Vertex Animation	Other features	Plus	Minus	SDK
3DS - 3D studio	Autodesk	application/octet-stream (binary)			Native support with 3ds max, common interchange format.	Easy to use, lots of documentation.	Materials, Lights, Cameras, Instancing	Third Party
Autodesk FBX	Autodesk	text/plain			Native support with 3ds max, mudbox etc, common interchange format, very widely used.	Easy to use, tons of ofiicial documentation.	Materials, Lights, Cameras, Instancing, Interchange	Yes
AN8 - Anim8or	R. Steven Glanville	text/plain	Unknown	Unknown		Easy to use, lots of documentation.	Not Widely supported outside of Anim8or 3d modelling package	Third Party
COLLADA - COLLAborative Design Activity	Khronos / Sony Computer Entertainment	text/xml			Effects, Shaders (GLSL, GLES, Cg), Materials, Textures, Lights, Cameras, Physics, Instancing	Easy to use, lots of documentation (Khronos shares the copyright).	Plaintext can create large files	Yes
DXF - AutoCAD object	Autodesk	text/plain or application/octet-stream (binary)				A widely supported CAD format	A CAD format is not designed with games in mind. can be binary or ascii which makes it potentially harder/slower to read.	Unknown
LWO - Lightwave object	NewTek Inc.	application/octet-stream (binary)			Physics, Dynamics, Hypervoxels, Material shaders, Nodes, Scripting(LScript, Python), Python	SDK Is availible (C / C++)		Yes
OBJ - Wavefront OBJ Format	Wavefront Technologies	text/plain				Simple Clean model format, easy to read (both by human and computer), most software exports to obj.	Bulky files, no animation.	Third Party
VRML1 - Virtual Reality Markup Language (Depreciated)	Unknown	model/vrml x-world/x-vrml application/x-cc3d	Unknown	Unknown	Lights, Cameras			Yes
X3D - Successor of VRML	ISO	model/x3d+xml model/x3d+binary model/x3d+vrml		Unknown	Lights, Cameras	Standard (ISO)		Yes
.X - Direct3D Mesh Object	Microsoft	Unkown	Unknown	Unknown		Efficient Easy to load	Microsoft	Yes
SMD - Halflife	Valve	application/octet-stream (binary)			Physics			Included With Source SDK
MD2 - Quake II Object Format	Id Tech.	application/octet-stream (binary)				Gpl'd		Unknown
MD3 - Quake III Object Format	Id Tech.	application/octet-stream (binary)				Gpl'd		Unknown
MD5 - Quake 4 and Doom 3 Object Format	Id Tech.	application/octet-stream (binary)			Camera Animation, Cutscenes	Gpl'd		Third Party

Feature Comparison Table

Name	Skeletal Animation	Vertex Animation	Multiple Animations	Materials	Textures	Lights	Cameras	Physics	Shaders	Instancing	Camera animation	Voxels	Scripting
MD2			?	?		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MD3			?	?		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
MD5				?		?	?	?	?	?		?	?
COLLADA			?								?	?	?

Map File Formats