simplifying mdl model (quake portal gun)

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[siska.robert]

The brites *should* be only on the lightning bolt. I'm not really sure, though!

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[toneddu2000]

I put the model in game and I noticed some black areas near the welding of the metal arms(). Just a question: do you alter the uv coordinates in the mdl export process? Because, if I override the texture in darkplaces with v_portal.mdl_0.tga the coordinates are completely scrambled ().
For Fullbright support:
I've no experience with normal quake engine but with nexuiz/xonotic (so darkplaces engine too) I created a model once with a completely black _glow.tga and just the overbright parts coloured
In this model, if I override the textured with v_portal.mdl_0_glow.tga, nothing happens.

During this week end, I'll try to find out the solution.

[siska.robert]

Oops! I didn't notice that at all!

This is normal quake MDL. There are no glow maps whatsoever. I just used that normal colored texture (changed it to 200x200 for dosquake) and that's it.

What caused that black spots AND that second problem is, that I merged gun model with BOLT1.MDL from pak0 in qME.
I this is how it got merged:



I think we have to add some bolts right to the blender file before exporting to MDL...

[Madfox]

Hey Siska..,

had a rough scetch, decided to replace the 24not cirkel by a 8not,
remodelled a bit and had this outcome.
Replacing resulted to a 925 tris and 3027 verts one.
I don't know if I could tighten things further, but from a far vieuw of point it has something of the valvegun.



So I could shorten up 689 tris, but had to count 3 verts in.
Anyway I was answering a 4may post , hadn't seen the others.
mayday