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i dont use irc, but i will try to look.. thanks

the quakeforge guys dont respond to my mails so i guess their project is dead.
the model is NOT JUST AN IMPORTED OLD QUAKE MDL, its a new model exported to the obscure format, it works fine in quakeforge,
but it indeed looks like an old "8bit MDL" in my engine, so i guess i missed something, i think ...

ok, as usual... thx for nothing..

who said its an "upscaled" model?
It IS a fresh model from blender, nothing upscaled :/

The Quakeforge devs are not answering my mails so i started porting it myself.
Actually the model gets loaded, BUT it still looks like an 8 bit vertex model (it is indeed an MD16, correctly exported).
What do i need to pay to get this format?

My goal was just to get a better modelformat without wobbling for the viewmodels, i would be already happy with the MD16
feature (because i dont need all the MD3 features), somebody should write a tutorial ...

Well i searched google a few months ago and i found this:

http://pastebin.com/s42Ku6KX

But this doesnt seems to work (it outputs the normals to a file on the first load).

Maybe, but i dont know much about the model stuff, especially MD3.
I think i just give up on this :/

This is the original loader from JoeQuake, i didnt added anything.

actually its this part which causes a slowdown (around 8 - 10 seconds per model, way too long)

EDIT: i wonder if its possible to take all the final calculated normals and output it as a file like the old
GLQuake MS2 meshes?


{
float lat, lng;
vec3_t ang;
md3vert_mem_t *vertexes = (md3vert_mem ...

MD3 takes too long to load because of the normal calculating..
Oh well, i think i stay with MD2 then

problem is i dont know much about the model code, and i see that my engine has alot different things like SetupAliasBlendedFrame etc, which isnt
in QuakeForge. I already sended the developers a mail, i hope they can help me adding this stuff.

I already looked at QF source, but its totally different how they handle the models..
Oh well :?

thanks.

Is the format (apart from the MD16 header and the 16 bit verts) similar?
I guess the texture is still stored like in a regular quake mdl.

it has 16 bit vertex data, and i want to use it.
But i think it needs more in the engine than just the header.