I like this idea. On gongo's website he claims that its difficult to develop md4's because there are no available build tools.<br>I'm really just wondering if there will be support for Maya, because newer versions of Maya don't really support md3's.
<br><br>Nice idea though!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:monk@rq3.com">monk@rq3.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:monk@rq3.com">monk@rq3.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi y'all. It was suggested that someone on this mailing list a while back<br>was interested in implementing MD4 support in ioq3. Now that ioq3's got a
<br>patch system set up, it would be nice to offer an optional patch for MD4<br>support.<br><br>Is anyone interested in this anymore?<br><br>For those who haven't heard about MD4 all that much, here's some linkage:<br><br>
<a href="http://gongo.quakedev.com">http://gongo.quakedev.com</a><br><a href="http://gongo.quakedev.com/md4.html">http://gongo.quakedev.com/md4.html</a><br><a href="http://gongo.quakedev.com/files.html">http://gongo.quakedev.com/files.html
</a><br><br>I've talked with Gongo recently and while he has no time or interest in<br>finishing his work, he does fully support this.<br><br>From what I've gathered, the work seems to be about 95% done. He outlined<br>a few of the spots that need "finishing" and I was able to get the latest
<br>version of the renderer code from 'im. I am not a skilled coder which is<br>why I am trying to gauge interest in this.<br><br>I do admit that part of my motivation is to use MD4 support in an existing<br>Q3 project/mod, but I'd rather see something that can be easily integrated
<br>in ioq3 for everyone to use. Most of the artists I've talked to have<br>ragged on Q3 and MD3 for lack of skeletal animation support. Since<br>everyone and their mother seems to be using ioq3 as the basis for turning
<br>Q3 mods into standalone projects, it seems only logical that any type of<br>skeletal animation support be provided to work seamlessly with ioq3 as a<br>patch.<br><br>The best part of MD4 as far as I can tell is the extra support for the
<br>artists' tools. The 3dmax exporters and apparently the MD4 importer also<br>has preliminary support for HL and HL2 animation files.<br><br>Yes, I know that Xreal has support for MD5 and that kind of fun stuff. I<br>
haven't really pursued that avenue, yet. I figured if there were no<br>interest whatsoever in MD4, I could pursue that route instead.<br><br>If anyone is interested, I will provide what help I can, copies of my<br>correspondence with Gongo, the latest code I have access to, someone able
<br>to create HL art assets to test the MD4 importer, etc.<br><br>Thanks for your time!<br><br>Monk<br><a href="http://www.rq3.com">www.rq3.com</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dave