Probably the best md2 tutorial I've seen.
Post: #1"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
Post: #4
Lots of code on how to read it, but there is no Mac application I'm aware of that can export in that format.
Can somebody please make an exporter for a couple of apps:
Cinema 4D
Lightwave 3D
Maya
Blender
...
Can somebody please make an exporter for a couple of apps:
Cinema 4D
Lightwave 3D
Maya
Blender
...
"When you dream, there are no rules..."
Post: #5
Very nice article.
There's a Blender MD2 exporter. I've been using it for over a year.
http://bane.servebeer.com/programming/bl...index.html
Taxxodium Wrote:Lots of code on how to read it, but there is no Mac application I'm aware of that can export in that format.
Can somebody please make an exporter for a couple of apps:
Cinema 4D
Lightwave 3D
Maya
Blender
...
There's a Blender MD2 exporter. I've been using it for over a year.
http://bane.servebeer.com/programming/bl...index.html
Post: #6Taxxodium Wrote:Lots of code on how to read it, but there is no Mac application I'm aware of that can export in that format.
I should make a macro for this link. I post it so often.
Misfit Model 3D---make md2s on a Mac---Yes! A Mac
You can preview them in Pakrat.
"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
Post: #8
Blender killed Elvis...and almost got me, too.
To each their own. I think MM3D is much easier to pick up. Works similarly to Meshwork but...works.
To each their own. I think MM3D is much easier to pick up. Works similarly to Meshwork but...works.
"Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
Post: #9
A link for the lazy to Seth's md2 loader. A heck of a lot easier to understand than the tutorial's source, imho.
Post: #10
Yeah...... I've got other code for stuff, but I'm technically not supposed to give it out....
My new email signature... 
Post: #12
It doesn't export the actual texture file, but it should include the UV coordinates in the MD2.
That exporter isn't perfect as it doesn't export a lot of stuff (like GL commands), but it should export the vertices, uv coordinates, triangle data, and frame data just fine, which is all you really need for a simple MD2 file. It may require a little editing to get working just right (like setting the number of frames if it's not 192), but the last I fiddled with it was over a year ago.
I seem to recall someone (Johan maybe) making a small tool that combined a bunch of single .obj files into an MD2, which is what I used back before I got into Blender. No idea where you'd find it now though.
That exporter isn't perfect as it doesn't export a lot of stuff (like GL commands), but it should export the vertices, uv coordinates, triangle data, and frame data just fine, which is all you really need for a simple MD2 file. It may require a little editing to get working just right (like setting the number of frames if it's not 192), but the last I fiddled with it was over a year ago.
I seem to recall someone (Johan maybe) making a small tool that combined a bunch of single .obj files into an MD2, which is what I used back before I got into Blender. No idea where you'd find it now though.
Post: #13Bachus Wrote:I seem to recall someone (Johan maybe) making a small tool that combined a bunch of single .obj files into an MD2, which is what I used back before I got into Blender. No idea where you'd find it now though.
Oh, I made one
. OK, it didn't exactly create an md2 - I didn't want to encode vertices as shorts, nor did I care about building glcommands, just plain old triangles. Other than that my ".jig" format is practically the same.I'll try the exporter again, since I too haven't used it in a long while. I'll give MM3D a try too.
