ref, I use Collada. It's xml, open source and most 3d suites support it directly or using a free plugin. It can hold any info we need for SH3/4, including multiple uv-sets, material info, parent-child relationships, named objects/containers etc. S3D will support export in the next release, and import in the subsequent one.
I will post a guideline and tutorial on 3ds max and Collada in the next weeks. The format does have limitations (basically some manual post-processing) but they are discussed in that tutorial and are only minor issues that you deal once with...
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