This page is the official homepage for 3D Object Converter, a powerful 3D polygon model translation and interactive viewing shareware tool that allows arbitrary 3D model data to be imported from external sources, exported to various industry standard 3D file formats with great accuracy and quality. The program supports 822 file formats. It is available for Windows95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP x86|x64/Vista x86|x64/Windows 7 x86|x64/Windows 8.x x86|x64/Windows 10 x86|x64 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2 x64/2016 x64/2019 x64.

Supported file formats (v8.004)
L=Load, S=Save, MTFS=Manually Texture File Selection
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MicroProse (European Air War; Fleet Defender Gold; Gunship!)
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@FsFOOT, thank you for the tips.
3dz format is finally now available in 3DObject Converter. It can be examined and reskinned perhaps a little easier. It can be converted to other formats but not back to 3dz (or 3db for that matter). Still, it could be done as long as there was any interest.

Gunship - Format of 3DB Files
These model files are very similar to EAW's 3DZ models, which are also used in Gunship.
The main differences are:
 The models can contain up to 65535 elements and 65535 points, instead of the 256 allowed by 3DZ's.
 All x,y,z coordinates are expressed as floating point values (and therefore take up 4 bytes instead of 2).
 Texture mapping coordinates are also floating point values, ranging from 0 to 1. In terms of the textures, coordinate (1,1) corresponds to the bottom right, and (0,0) to the top left. To get the actual pixel coordinate, simply multiply by the size of the texture (normally 256).
 All surface normals are normalised to 1 (using floating point values) instead of 16384 as in the 3DZs.
 The 3DB format also includes "True Vertex Normals", which I don't know the use of - perhaps someone who is familiar with Gunship could fill in this blank?
Please see Paulo Morais’ original notes on the 3DZ structure for more detailed information about each section.
Gurney, 19/10/2003

Does the conversion to 3dz provide a working rendering sequence?