New Model Loader

One of the sore points of the original game was that buildings attributes were handcoded. This was a very tedious effort. Also not to mention the results were not too appealing always, and the visual complexity of the objects was exceedingly little. But now by leveraging a third party Model loader, the loading of almost all formats has become a simple cake walk.

Thanks to ASSIMP, hosted at http://assimp.sourceforge.net/, we were able to load not just MD2, but even open source models like Collada etc. This has opened up a whole new array of resources for us. Also it lets us do away with the current MD2 loader which is pretty brittle. Even Skeleton animation can be included too if required.

However, Release 1.0 will be shipped without this feature.