Well I've tested the model importer on OVER 9000 MODELS (not really, maybe like 5) and they all imported fine, whether they had bones or not. I think that as long as you follow the exporting guidelines I posted on the OP, you shouldn't have any problems

I'm still working on getting rebuilt models to work in-game, it'd be nice if some people who know the MDL0 format reasonably well could help me test some rebuilt models in-game and pinpoint what's wrong (People like Tcll, RTB, Eternal Yoshi?, Myself, Idk

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Also, read through some of Kryal's old posts on smashboards. Sad stuff man, I wish he would've stuck around a little bit longer (although I guess I wouldn't be coding Brawlbox if he did...) D:
I'm questioning whether I should take up being the official coder of Brawlbox (instead of making modsets). Kryal hasn't been on smashboards for over half a year... I'm not sure if I can because it's copyright 2009 Bryan Moulton, but what do I know about copyrights.

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