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It has always been difficult to get decent models for quake 1. So a thread where people can get advice on making models and post a work-in-progress for critiques is long overdue.

Any requests for models may well get met with silence. Specific requests will likely stand a better chance; "I'd really like a knight but carrying a shield" might be better received than "we need a mdler to join our mod remaking counter-strike for darkplaces".
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Won't install. Windows8 says, "This won't work on your PC, LOL". 
 
did you try the zip file i linked? it's just the qme folder. 
 
BUT the full install works, thanks necros! 
Windows8 Says, "This Won't Work On Your PC, LOL". 
The LOL is included in your Windows message !? 
 
I wish it was! More OSes should make fun of you during normal usage. 
 
Windows is much too serious for that. 
Technical Note 
I think the issue is that QMe won't install on 64 bit processor machines, because the program is 32 bit but the installer is 16 bit. This was a common technique in the mid 90s, so you could at least display a message to people in the 16 bit world that the program wasn't compatible. 
 
Probably my last noob question ... why does the walltorch auto animate? I'm looking at it in QME and I don't see a flag or whatever that would tell Quake to animate it.

The QuakeC doesn't seem to initiate it so ... bluh?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/TorchQuestion.jpg 
 
*sigh* Frame Group ... NOW I see the little circle on the torch frames. Sorry! 
 
Hey preach, support for framegroups would be awesome. :P 
Necros 
Well, other programs can view these shots just fine, so the palette is stored in there somehow. 
Framegroups 
Yeah, I had been thinking that was the one bit of support missing. Here's a version with support for them (but literally zero error checking if you do something stupid like overlapping ranges, backwards pairs, invalid syntax, etc)

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/tools/fbxtomdl-0.4.zip

The switch is -g, used like

fbxtomdl -g 1-6,17-25,40-45

Groups have to be constructed from contiguous frame ranges, and animation speed is automatically 0.1. If you want anything fancier you need to install python and check out qmdl. Test it out and if you don't run into bugs I'll make the release proper. 
What Modelling Software 
Are you using warren? 
 
MODO 
 
Ugh ... So qME tried to start up and couldn't find the previous model I had open (I deleted it). This prompted it to bugger it's interface.

This may be blindingly obvious, but how do I get the 3D viewports back? I can't seem to make it happen:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/QMEWTF.jpg 
Hm 
My version here is a bit wonky so I can't test properly right now, but it should just be clicking the camera button up there in the top left.

That's the frame editor view, and there's the same inside the view menu.

Not sure about version differences, but it looks like you're missing the buttons to reset the viewports to default. One in particular is an eye, which centers the camera on the model itself. 
 
FFS, that was it. Thanks! The camera button fixed it... 
Hah 
Just tried opening another version I have and thanks to not being able to modify my own (work) PC I cannot close it down.

90's software XD 
 
What's the point of using such ancient tools nowadays? 
No Alternatives 
 
 
Exactly. It's not like anybody WANTS to use QME ... there's just nothing else. 
 
And now that my vacation week is over I suddenly think of a program that needs writing. :P 
QMLE 
was my only reason for the internet. 
 
well, if anyone wants something to start with for a model editor: https://github.com/necros0/ne_modelEditor 
 
Blarg ...

Preach, can you look at this?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/MDLBugs/base.fbx
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/MDLBugs/skin0.tga

That model gives me this error when converting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "fbxtomdl.py", line 189, in <module>
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\qmdl\helper.py", line 22, in save
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\qmdl\mdl.py", line 828, in write
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\qmdl\mdl.py", line 413, in write_vertices
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\qmdl\mdl.py", line 394, in write
struct.error: argument out of range

It's only 144 triangles ... so I don't know what the problem is. :-/ 
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