you could also write a Max script that will export all the info you need. i''m currently writing one so that I can use 3d studio max r4 to make and export my 3d scenes, etc.

Hey, I am currently working with x-files and i understand them pretty well. I got simple .x files working and even have key frame animation going, but what are skinned meshes? The DX8 SDK does not talk about them much and explain what they are. Are they models with bones where you move the bones and the skinned is rapped around the bones, so that the mesh is recomputed every frame? If this is the case, what advantages does this hold over key frames besides the obvious of more fluid movement? Also, how does it computer normals and is it alot slower they key framing? I would imaging it would be much slower.

Thanks for any info you can give, and that book you mentioned Jim Adams, when is it gonna be out?

Possibility

You have to use character studio to get the skeletal information into the .x files.