[larsivi]

It looks like the tools for converting to and from formats is standalone projects. I would have liked it if they could implement some sort of Reader/Writer interface so that they can be hooked into the system proper.

[csauls]

Some of them are written as export-plugins for their respective software, and I think the idea was for the truly stand-alone ones to be ran once on the data to be converted, then left untouched and not distributed. *shrug* I'm still debating what to do with them, if anything... the truly stand-alone ones we could try re-implementing if we want, and maybe make hooks for them so that if Sinbad tries to load a file and discovers one of those formats, it can execute a quick system call and get the format it wants... might be good for someone making a game that supports mods.
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Chris Nicholson-Sauls