Question about Anims

I just have a quick question.

Seeing as Max users haven't yet got an exporter that perfectly exports animations to .mdl, yet Milkshape does, couldn't you just save the model with animations as a .3ds and then have Milkshape import it then use the milkshape exporter to export?

Or doesn't the .3ds format keep all animations created within a scene?

.3ds doesnt hold aniamtion data.

Sorry for bringing up an old post, but I just had another question on this topic.

What bout .obj files?
Do they keep animation data or not?

obj holds even less data than .3ds, i beleive its verts, faces, and texture verts only