MD5 is a 3D skeleton based model format formed by ID Software. It is very good for file size and is widely open for use and easy to work with as it is stored as ASCII plain text. It is not supported by any versions of Glest, MegaGlest or GAE, but may be considered in the future. One good thing about MD5 is how it stores meshes and animations separately into two formats MD5MESH (stores mesh and skeleton) and MD5ANIM (store skeletal animation). To use MD5 an MD5MESH is loaded for the model mesh then multiple MD5ANIMs are used to animate that model, also other MD5MESH meshes can share the same MD5ANIMs so long as there skeletons are the same (they can be as varied as they want so long as they have the same amount of bones with the same names and hierarchical structure, though odd results can