Btw the gl quake thing could be due to outdated mesh cache -- gl quake stores on disk optimized copies if the model files that it generates only if they don't exist already, so if the mdl file changes and the cache isn't cleared, it looks like gibberish in game. I think you can find and delete the files in a "glquake" folder inside your id1 folder 

Shambler works in Winquake... and the expansions 

yeah. here is a demo video

https://youtu.be/sDa8cVHDhP4

Even though this is not the greatest model I feel a great sense of achievement having successfully gone through all the steps to get a model in game. Animation and especially the running/walking ones are pretty hard to get at least decent looking.

AI wise the monster behaves exactly like the vanilla dog with a little more health since I didn't want to make anything special except getting it to work. Although I gotta say playing with quakec is where the real fun begins. First thing I did was throwing 500 gibs instead of just 3, which looks awesome. Then I replaced those gibs with ogrenades which in turn was stupid. In the end I left everything pretty basic though.

Except for the soundfx (which a buddy of mine made) I used open source software (blender, krita, mdl exporter, fteqcc, slade3) and I didn't need much else really.

I'm going to zip everything up (including, qc and blend files) and then upload to quaketastic I guess?

I'd very much like to do more of this. Next time with a little more effort. Are there projects in the making that need some models/monsters? I wouldn't want to just create something random that in the end doesn't get used. 

this is great, grats on doing the whole thing from start to finish. 

If that's your first model, it bodes very well for the future. 

I like the way the skin is smoothly animated. 

 

http://shoresofnis.com/temp/objExport.PNG

mdl -> obj exporting!
need to clean up the code and probably fix bugs, but hopefully should have a new download for my shitty model editor soon.... mdl to obj is not overly useful, but might be nice if you plan to kitbash the stock models and want to preserve the UV mapping. 

Nice work, that looks great! 

necros

Wow, so they put the texture seam on the fiend in the most visible place possible. Smooth. :) 

In most cases they just cut model in half, so you have front and back UV isle. No packing, no mirroring, ugly seams etc.
http://www.textures-resource.com/pc_computer/quake1/texture/1700/ 

I think I need to offset all the uvs by half a pixel due to the way quake vs everything else displays them, so that seam is worse than it should be. 

but I put it in the wrong directory. I meant to put it in the models directory.

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/mon_knut.zip
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/mon_knut.png

Can I move it? 

Maybe it is not the greatest model, but it is working, has its own style and finished. I mean it is not using some placeholder checker pattern instead of texture or same animation for all states.

<cough>write a tutorial</cough> 

Animation can be improved indeed, but it's a solid model. Good work. 

Where would I go if I wanted to find custom models and resources as a mapper? Be it enemies or static meshes. Is there a goto place?

@DeeDoubleU

I could write a bit about some technicalities, prerequisites and workflow. But I'm no expert in any of this. 

flp, preach has some nice models on his website -

https://tomeofpreach.wordpress.com/category/models/ 

Yes, just write down your experience like in a blog. It's always helpful to others. Also, you can get opinions, corrections... 

hey guys, as promised, here's my shitty model editor:
http://shoresofnis.com/post.php?postID=9

to convert, just open an mdl or obj, then File->Save / Ctrl+S.
You need to use the file extension drop down. Just typing it in will not work.

You can also mess around with UVs a bit too and batch rename frames with a text file.

the idea is if you are importing your model with a bunch of separate files, you can do a dir /b in the folder and dump the output to a text file.

yes, i know, this is super primitive and just awkward. mainly it was to learn 3D picking and Open GL, but it does let you bring models into your model editing program with their UVs intact, and I think the UV editor is pretty good... 

oh yeah, you can preview animations by shift+clicking to select multiple frames in the listbox.

also, when exporting to OBJ, only the first frame selected will be exported. 

Really glad with a new model editor. Surely will try it out.
It's hard to find new Q1 model editors.

I was puzzling how far I could go with only two triangles in shape of a squad in Qmle. It seems that without a max or blender I was able to compose e new rune only by adding vertices.

J- Rune 

well.... don't get too excited. my model editor is useless without a modeling program. :(

it started off as a reason to learn open gl and 3d picking. then i wanted to make a better UV editor. then i needed to batch rename frames for sock. then i needed to convert an mdl to obj and preserve UVs for a model I am making...

basically, that editor only contains things I needed. i posted it in the hopes that maybe someone else needs the exact same things. :3 

@fifth
thx for the link. I just then discovered there is an "older entries" button.

@necros
the 3d view doesn't work in linux
Exception in thread "3DViewThread" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: ./ne_modelEditor0.04/natives/liblwjgl.so

I dig the colorscheme of your website though

@tutorial
I did write the tutorial

http://pnahratow.github.io/creating-models-for-quake-1.html

and have put some effort into it. It's quite a wall of text. If you care to read the whole thing I'd very much like to hear feedback. 

oh... that would make sense since the libraries are windows DLLs. :(

i'll try to figure out what I need to do to get it to work in linux. 

looks like it's more complicated than just putting in the .so linux libraries. :(