Converting MD2 models to MDL

hondobondo · Post by **hondobondo** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:36 am

what is the best software for such a thing? what about converting MD3 models? i've looked at the tutorial on qexpo but what if i want to convert an existing model rather than one made from scratch?

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:24 am

MD2:
Quark can do this fine.

MD3:
You can do it in Quark, though be prepared for annoying skin texture drag and suching into the editor and work around errors. And you'll have to rely on luck if your uvs will be preserved or not.

Quick3D can also do it, but it is a shareware program and it flips UVs vertically and breaks normals and also forces the filename 'shareware_output.mdl'.

Stealth Kill · Post by **Stealth Kill** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:23 pm

You can use Blender too but u need Preachs MDL exporter plugin.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:21 am

Stealth Kill wrote:You can use Blender too but u need Preachs MDL exporter plugin.

his exporter isn't even mature enough to export an animated mdl well

ShoTro · Post by **ShoTro** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:41 pm

leileilol wrote:his exporter isn't even mature enough to export an animated mdl well

Or at all depending on if you touch anything. I am actually looking into it, but it relies on Phython, a language I am not familiar with, although extremely interesting, but with lots of higher math functions and list management it is an interesting challenge.