The best is obviously 3DSMAX 7.5/8 as (obviously) it's 100% supported. It has it's own custom exporter which exports anims, scenes, bones, vertex weights, vertex colours, normals (smoothing groups) and all possible multitexture layers.
the plugin is on www.onigirl.com/pipeline but I don't think you can afford 3dsmax :)
the plugin is on www.onigirl.com/pipeline but I don't think you can afford 3dsmax :)