Create a map with an entity class of viewthing. Then use the commands

viewmodel
viewframe
viewprev
viewnext

to play around with the model and the frames. Need a mod to set the skin I guess... 

it's all flooding back now...

I'll have a go cheers 

you can try my shitty java model 'editor':
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/ne_modelEditor.zip

it's unfinished, but you can load a .mdl with frames, move uvs and save. you can also bulk rename frames by giving it a text file with the frame names, one per line. iirc, the 'set texture' button also works, but i think it has to be a pcx in the format from qme (eg: no palette data) so better off not using it. 

I'll check that out - cheers necros! 

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2015/40/1443817762-step2wip.png

This is gonna be similar to Q2's chaingun, with the difference of replacing the pre-fire state by a spin-up state.
Note that it'll only be available in a secret in the secret level of the episode, and as a secret in the final level. 

http://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?content=inc_projects.php 

than was making quake web tools a while back, I'm pretty sure there's a HTML5 .mdl previewer on the web somewhere right now

ahh: https://github.com/andyp123/quake_web_tools 

found it, it's on his secret other site that doesn't have his name in the name

http://pecope.co/experiments/quake_web_tools/QuakeWebTools.html 

My goodness... it works. It renders bsp, you can navigate thru the level. 

Cheers, it would appear now that my .mdl viewing predicaments have been alleviated :} 

Without frame interpolation: http://webm.host/b5668/vid.webm

With frame interpolation: http://webm.host/a0164/vid.webm 

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1849053/Shambler_Wip_02.jpg

Posting this here... nibbling away at my shambler remake. 

Fur? 

Looks more like a suit than fur so far. :P
Good luck with getting the animations to be tolerable though. :s 

Looks awesome but yeah, something like that is not gonna work in .mdl. No way, Jos�. 

that looks super nice... probably wont be able to use it in quake though. 

how does it compare to the uprezzed grunt and dog by Capn'bubs?

http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod-releases/works-progress/9573-authentic-model-improvement.html

Looks pretty close in terms of density :) 

looks way more hipoly and hi res textured to me. 

tbh, you could make it 1/4 the polycount and you wouldn't notice the difference in game. 

I was wondering about the skin resolution in QMLE.
I know there are several limits, I thought something like 308 x 240.

So I keep myself to these limits untill recently I found a
static model I use that has 480 x 215 and seems to work well.

Is this a marginal exception, that confirms other errors? 

i believe the max height of a skin is........ 320?
and the max width is something like 2048..? 

Most likely wont be going with fur. We'll see what I end up with. As for the chest area yea its a little too structured looking right now. This model is going to use a 512x512 though for the final texture. which gives it the same pixel density for its size in relation to all the other monsters. This is how I see the shambler in my head when playing the game :)

I might make another lower detail one later that is closer to the original. 

long ago i heard that a max height of 200 was the guideline, but i can't remember where i got that or what engines/tools it applies to, if any. (dpaint?)

Floyd.mdl has a skin size of 256 x 512 and that seems to work in all engines i've tried it (which isn't that many, e.g. i didn't try dos quake.) 

i think the guideline was max height 256, because while you could do 320, the whole shrinking skin thing in normal glquake would make it look worse (resizing 320 to 256).

then fitzquake started doing the opposite (i think it just pads outwards to make it ^2?) so that problem went away.