MD5 Models For Dummies

Any programmers interested in digging into the MD5 model format should check out this tutorial by Marco Monster. It details the skeletal model format used in Doom 3. There's no source code available, unfortunately. Anyone interested in actually creating models should be in luck when the SDK arrives Real Soon Now.

fp :p

cool stuff, i've been wanting to make a classic monster conversion. o wait, i gotta learn how to model in the first place, lol.

Wait a minute, didn't Quake 3 use MD3? So what happened to MD4?

# -md4
Save the model as an MD4 file. MD4 files are Quake 3 skeleton models. This was implemented for Quake 3, but was never used.

http://www.ritualistic.com/games/ef2/gdkdocs/content/fakk2_max2skl.html

.. Marco Monster? Er, Nevermind.

I wrote a MD2 loader/viewer.

Vile said:

MD4 files are Quake 3 skeleton models. This was implemented for Quake 3, but was never used.

This was implemented in the engine for licensees to use. Some Q3 engine licensee games use MD4.