Darkplaces Unreal model support

[Swift]

According to the Wiki Darkplaces supports this.

I havn't seen any examples online or documentation regarding this.

Are there any caveats regarding file versions? Sample models I could try? Please, please no discussion of legality's. : )

I've already written an qc animation system using framegroups for md3 models, I'd love to see some Unreal stuff in action.

[JasonX]

http://dpwiki.slipgateconstruct.com/ind ... ing_for_DP

If you're not concerned about legality, just go to gildor.org and use it's model viewer/exporter to export either MD5's or PSA/PSK's from your copy of UT3. Then test the models.

[Swift]

Why MD5? I'm more interested in the technology than unreal player models for the heck of it.

Assuming it supports Unreal tech 3, what is the darkplaces renderer like when it comes to very high poly unreal models?

[JasonX]

As i said, either MD5 or PSA/PSK can be exported. It's up to you what to use with DP, since it supports both. DarkPlaces runs very well anything you can shoot at it, don't underestimate it's capabilities.

[Swift]

Indeed.
Thanks for the model viewer link. I'm trying it with the UDK.

[Swift]

Damn. Apparently umodel is broken by UDK.

[leileilol]

If you're making models for DP, I wouldn't even bother with PSK, and just use the new IQM format instead.

DP does not support MD5.

Scavenging Unreal PSK meshes won't do you any good anyway. Unreal's model scale is at least 10x bigger than Quake's, and Darkplaces doesn't really have 'mesh properties' to adjust the origin, rotation and scale post-load that isn't entity fields.

[Swift]

Well, that could be fixed via entity fields.

It's a pain though, I can't find any player models to try. I don't really know what I'm looking for in the UDK.

[c0burn]

Whats IQM?

[JasonX]

http://lee.fov120.com/iqm/

[Downsider]

I heard about this recently. Looks like an ideal solution for modern Quake engines, although it would benefit greatly from CSQC.

[r00k]

Mods would have to support per frame bounding boxes.

.vector mins[256], maxs[256]; // bounding box extents relative to frame and origin

[Urre]

What, no! I wouldn't interpret it like that. Even MDL supports per frame bounding boxes, but if you setsize the entity to something else, it will use that bounding box instead...