Quake 1 Model Format Specification?

[Baker]

I've been playing around making models in Gmax and Milkshape and so far my experience converting them has been a bad one. [QME is nice but it doesn't have very much flexibility or precision.]

Both trying using Quick3D and Quark, I'm getting problems of an unclear nature that could involve invalid vertexes or who knows what.

I've read Preach's outstanding tutorial from QExpo 2006 ( http://www.quakeexpo.com/booth.php?id=32&page=79 )

Does anyone know where I can find the Quake .mdl specification detailed enough that I can write a program to write .mdl files?

[Baker]

Seems to be the model specs:

http://tfc.duke.free.fr/coding/mdl-specs-en.html

[Spirit]

You might find some stuff in http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/

[MDave]

Looking into the quake engine code that handles loading mdl's is also a good idea

[Baker]

Looking into the quake engine code that handles loading mdl's is also a good idea

I finally got it to work. I had to follow the Preach tutorial down the very letter due to the various weirdnesses of Quake and the utilities it seems. Which is great, because I really like GMax.