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Switching existing model to Blender

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I initially started with blender only to do texture baking of ambient occlusions. I imported my DC8 VC into Blender and was intending to bake individual textures one at a time and continue compiling the model into FSX from GMAX. However, I found some parts were being mangled by the various converters I used. I ended up remaking one part in blender and I found I liked Blender a lot more than GMAX. And I still couldn't get complex shapes back and forth between GMAX and blender, no matter which program I made them in.

So after thinking about it for some time, I have decided to switch the VC development entirely to Blender. Although I will lose a fair amount of development time at first, I think I will more than make it up in the end. It appears not to have any of the problems that slowed me down so much in GMAX (although I guess I will probably find some new ones). I have now successfully compiled the partly completed model into FSX from Blender, so I think I good to go now with VC done all in Blender from this point forward.

I am assuming that there is no way to get my model into Blender with it's animations (not tagged, but at least present). I used MCX to pull the model out of FSX, exported as 3ds and then imported into Blender. So I end up without any animations and I just want to confirm there is no way around this before I start redoing them all. Am I correct in thinking there is no way to transfer a model into Blender with animations?
 
For your concluding question: no, as far as I know. I've been struggling with the same issue back in 2013 when I wanted to make a model FSX suitable using gmax.
 
The only format that keeps animations (that I know of) is .FBX. I have used it to migrate models from Blender to 3dsmax. But from gmax to Blender? I don't know...
 
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