MD2/MD3 animations

LEViATHAN · Nov 2008

Anyone able to dig up tutorials on how to animate stuff and exporting to MD2/3 format for me?
Only know how to do bone-based stuff.

Using max 7/9/2008 btw.

Thanks in advance.

arrangemonk · Nov 2008

just animate like you're used to (merge all the animations to one file) and export as md2
i used this script to export, dunno if it works in max 2008
http://www.blitzforum.de/upload/file.php?id=1627

LEViATHAN · Nov 2008

So I can just use bone rigs to animate?

leilei · Nov 2008

Yes, you could even do your wacky titty IK if you wanted. Anything that moves vertices will show up in your animated MD2/MD3 since it's only a vertex morph format.
I personally recommend MD3 though, as that is not limited to integer precision like MD2 (makes a huge visual difference)

nezach · Nov 2008

IIRC md2 and md3 store vert positions for animations, so how they get moved (bones, biped, cloth sim, etc)is irrellivent to the format.

LEViATHAN · Nov 2008

Ok, thank guize.

MD2/MD3 animations

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