First Quake mdl question

[asdqwe]

I'm trying to make my 1st animated Quake model. Could someone tell me, step-by-step, how to do it starting in 3ds Max or GMAX, naming some softwares along the way? Or point me to a tutorial?
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[MauveBib]

You won't find any tutorials on making a quake model in MAX, but that doesn't matter. The same principles apply no matter what game you are modelling for, so look up any 3ds max modelling tutorial (and there are thousands).

Here is an excellent step-by-step character modelling tutorial for max:

Once you have it modelled and animated in max you'll need to export to mdl, but that's a way off yet.

[asdqwe]

I _already_ know how to model & animate in MAX. What I need to know is how to convert my 3ds max file to a mdl.
I'd like to know the whole workflow of getting an _animated_ mdl.
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[ceriux]

get blender and import your obj file into it get the mdl exporter for blender then read the tutorial on how to export to mdl from blender easiest way iv found.

[MauveBib]

Or there is a commercial md2 exporter for max called qtip, and it's easy to convert from md2 to mdl maintaining the animations.

[ceriux]

oh well what ever i make ends up in milkshape -.-
then to either blender or to md3

[MauveBib]

Personally I export to smd (hl 1 format) then use dpmodel to convert to md3.

[ceriux]

milkshape animates in smd format and compiles using qc files.

[asdqwe]

Thanks to all! But I did it via Modelgen and Texmake. I got an animated mdl file.

... now I have another question: I need to create a skin that fits on the model. Is there any unwrap facility that shows the seam lines between the skin and the black background? QME 2.3 has it but when I export the texture to edit it in some program, it doesn't save the seam lines. And I don't want to paint on the model, like in QME 3.
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[ceriux]

your supposed to make the uv's before you compile it into a mdl. i use lithunwrap

[MauveBib]

Qme has an option to paint the UV lines on the skin.



Personally I use Max to do it though, it's an option in the built in UV unwrapper.

[asdqwe]

I've tried the Paint Triangles option and it's not showing them correctly- there are stray pixels that aren't part of any polygon.
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[MauveBib]

Yeah it's not perfect. As i said, I save them from max myself.

[Spike]