petri wrote:I think I've finally nailed how custom assets work. Mods can now contain custom items, monsters, dungeon objects, wall sets, sounds, materials, textures, animations, meshes and models. Cinematics and some other smaller things are still missing though.
However I don't think we are going to release and maintain tools for generating meshes and animations in game readable format. The problem is that maintaining these for the gazillion of different content creation tools is a lot of work and would be pretty much a fulltime job for one man. What we could do, however, is to release the specs for the mesh and animation file formats, so that some creative people out there could step out and help the modding community.
How does this sound?
If I have time, I could do a MaxScript exporter and/or .fbx converter for the meshes.
I think your plan is the right one, give us file formats.