Howdy, Need a *large* MD2.

Jones

Hey everybody, I'm new here!

I'm currently a game developer in training and I'm currently working on an MD2 encoder/decoder for my game engine. I've been having some trouble with it, and I've only got two MD2's to test the code with. I was told polycount might have some other ones, but it's currently down it would seem.

I need a large MD2 (in filesize). The ones I've currently got are about 300kb, I'd need something about 1megabyte.

Is there a site you would recommend for finding a model? Or perhaps one of you would be willing to share a model you created?

Thanks!

CrazyButcher

sorry dont have one at hand, due to hardware constraints it's also a bit unlikely to find such big files for the old quake2. Best bet is some quake2 standalone games, that use modified q2 engine.

http://ufo.myexp.de/
this one is based on q2, I just googled for quake2 engine...

just wondering why you picked md2 instead of md3 ? They are not much different, but the 'tags' in md3 are quite useful, and there is more md3 exporters out there.

Jones

As far as I know (and I'm still learning) MD3's do not support built in animations, and there is far less material available on them. I think I've got a copy of the Quake3 source lying around I'll pick it up and take a peek. Thanks for the link!

CrazyButcher

md3's have same animation system as md2s (per frame meshes). However md3s also come with "tags" a single triangle that can be animated and serves as anchor point, very useful to combine multiple objects to one, or attach stuff like guns... It can be used like a simple skeletal animation system.
Each mesh in the md3 also stores a string to its material, so that should be equivalent to md2 as well. however precise material definitions are done in the .shader files for quake3.

CheapAlert

try the infamous squidge. not a good model, but it's 3k+ triangles

http://www.fileplanet.com/hosteddl.aspx?%2fpolycount/models/quake2/q2mdl-squidge.zip