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I was wondering how you would incorporate characters made with 3D Studio Max
into a game using Direct 3D?

- Model them
- Write a plugin that exports them to your 3D format
- or else export to a simple format like .ASC, or .3DS for which
there's documentation available)
- Read the files in your engine, and display them.
- Figure out the things you can't do during modelling because you
can't interpret them properly when reading them (there's a lot of
this)
- Remodel them, re-export, re-figure out, etc. ad nauseam.

If you want a simple way without buying a commerical library, you
might have to go with Direct3D Retained Mode (D3DRM), standard part of
DirectX, which has a .3DS-> .X (their own file format) converter, and
can then read .X files and draw them. You'll have to read the
documentation and sample code in DirectX to figure this out.

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Well, if you're using retained mode then you can use one of the many model
convertors.
3DWin is pretty good. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thbaier/

There are two links on this page
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/programming/
That talk about making 3Dstudio plugins for D3D...

Quote:>>I was wondering how you would incorporate characters made with 3D Studio
Max
>>into a game using Direct 3D?

>- Model them
>- Write a plugin that exports them to your 3D format