BOB/BEO format texture definition

[MegumiKasuga]

Hello there, my colleague @IAFEnvoy has finished the MTB/FMTB loader for our model library in the past several days. We are now focusing on the loader of BOB/BEO formats. We found that there's only TEXSIZE and UV in your BOB exporter. Nothing about Texture File Name/Identifier could be found. It would be undoubtedly helpful if we could receive some useful suggestion from you.
Here's the link of our recent work: KasugaLibGroup/KasugaLibNext#43

[Fexcraft]

I'd like to remind that both mtb and fmtb are storage archives of modelling softwares.
MTB being not from FMT, but "Minecraft SMP Toolbox".
While I won't comment further about MTB..

You are not supposed to use fmtb files as models.
The jtmt file inside, while indeed being a model file, contains editor data which is irrelevant for Minecraft.

Regarding texture references inside bob/beo, it may be something I missed to allow textures/materials be defined per group.
Usually entity type models in the Minecraft scope have a single texture per whole model.
I may have to update the bob/beo format for this.

If you mean the model's overall main texture, that is usually defined in the entity renderer or config of the content that uses the model.

[MegumiKasuga]

So you mean that the main texture of BOB/BEO model format needs to be specified manually in Renderer classes instead of being indexed in the model file itself, right?

[Fexcraft]

That's how it usually is in Minecraft entity models.

[Fexcraft]

Looking at it from different perspectives.
If you only rely on a texture defined in the model file, you have a single look.
But if the texture is defined during rendering, you can use the same model on various entities with different texture applied or you can define the texture based on a variable in the entity.
etc.