The Franklin 3D 1.0 specifications include support for both industry standard mesh and texture formats, allowing easy reuse and re-purposing of existing content.

Mesh File Format Support

The Franklin 3D specifications call for support of the following formats:

• 3D Studio meshes (.3ds, r)
• B3D files (.b3d, r) - Animated, Rigged Imports
• MS3D files (.ms3d, r) - Animated, Rigged Imports
• Wavefront OBJ (.obj, r/w)
• Lightwave Objects (.lwo, r)
• COLLADA 1.4 (.xml, .dae, r/w)
• Microsoft DirectX (.x, r) (binary & text) - Animated, Rigged Imports
• Quake 3 levels (.bsp, r)
• Quake 2 models (.md2, r) - Animated Imports
• Quake 3 models (.md3, r) - Animated Imports

Texture File Format Support

The Franklin 3D specifications call for support of the following formats:

• JPEG (.jpg, r/w)
• PNG (.png, r/w)
• Truevision Targa (.tga, r/w)
• Bitmap (.bmp, r/w)
• Photoshop (.psd, r)
• Zsoft Paintbrush (.pcx, r/w)
• Portable Pixmaps (.ppm, r/w)
• Quake 2 textures (.wal, r)

r - read, r/w - read/write support.