Models are an important part of all entities & unique nodes in Mineclone2. They provide a 3 dimensional map of an object for which textures are then applied to. This document is for modders, it quickly highlights some important information for the software needed to open models in Mineclone2.
For more detailed information on actually using blender to create and modify models for Minetest/Mineclone2, please visit the Minetest wiki's page on using Blender [Here](https://wiki.minetest.net/Using_Blender)
Blender is a very popular and free modeling software supported on Windows, MacOS, and most Linux distributions. It is recommended to use Blender to create and modify 3D models within the minetest engine.
Blitz 3D (.b3d) Is one of the main animated model formats used for entities in the minetest engine. It cannot be imported to blender without a plugin called "Import-Export:Bitz 3D format (.b3d)".
The most up to date version of this Blender plugin can be downloaded [Here](https://github.com/GreenXenith/io_scene_b3d/releases/tag/f189786)
Note: The sometimes accompanying .mtl files are not supported and can safely be deleted.
Note: Do not use .b3d and .x files for static meshes at the moment, Minetest currently spawns animated mesh scene nodes for these, which may result in reduced performance.
* [-] Blender exporter is kinda buggy and inefficient
* [-] Probably still bigger than an equivalent .b3d
Note: Avoid using the binary X format! It's actually just a tokenized version of the ASCII representation, and may actually be less efficient than a sufficiently optimized text .x file!
