QuakeForge 0.7.0 released.

[taniwha]

[goldenboy]

Congrats. I look forward to trying it.

[qbism]

Now I want to learn blender. And not just for painting wings3d models. The only other option for direct MDL production including animation is MS3D, which has not been updated in a while.
Somewhere there's a Chithon replacement model and tutorial for blender 2.4. Anything newer out there for noobs?

[leileilol]

No, because I didn't write one yet. I have finally gotten used to the 2.6x interface though, chances are I could, in the same condescending way I did before.

This also depends on how well this new MDL exporter works (i.e. not being annoying and anal about selecting, transformations/rot/scale of objects). I will test by exporting the angelyss/dark character.

EDIT: exporter crashes on 2.61.

[qbism]

[leileilol]

ARGH
that means i have to install yet another regressing version of Blender for one format


EDIT: yeah, i'd say this script is too immature, especially compared to ajmdl export for 2.4x

- demands pre-triangulation
- no animations (instead it's the current frame)
- produces a very broken mesh similar to the bad md2 exporter



same mesh, old exporter, which does some comfortable things:
- exports what is selected
- triangulates on the fly
- can work from any origin, rotation, scale (no need to apply)
- bakes image textures in the mdl
- exports animations to the current frame

[taniwha]

[taniwha]

leileilol: I've found the ajmdl script. That should help get some good functionality going

[qbism]

[taniwha]

[taniwha]

[leileilol]

[taniwha]

I asked Campbell about image consolidation and I was told I'd have to write it myself (I may have asked the wrong question, though, and he didn't seem 100% certain). That said, it can't be that hard (though I imagine it will be quite slow written in python).

Did my changes fix most of your issues with the exporter?

I don't know anything about Hexen II MDL . The MD16 format was (I believe) designed by Serplord (Seth Galbraith).

[qbism]

[taniwha]

ctrl-j does indeed truely join the meshes into the one object. However, I have no idea how it handles uvmaps and textures assigned via the uvmaps.