Inside3D!
     

Map to model?

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Inside3d Forums Forum Index -> Mapping
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
ajay



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 295
Location: Swindon, UK

PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:39 am    Post subject: Map to model? Reply with quote

Is possible to convert .maps to .mdl. I'm making a kind of complex map and I guess it would help if some of the architecture were models. Or would taking some aspects and "tie to entity" - ing them work?
I'd rather the map to model thing though.

Or is it the other way round; you can .mdl to .map? I'm sure it's one of them...

Ta.
_________________
my site
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message MSN Messenger
neg!ke
Guest





PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it is possible but also fairly messy depending on the object you want to have modelled, and requires quite a lot additional work after the actual conversion.
quark has some model editing features; HeadThump once sent me a program called 3dexploration which could load maps and export them to a format readable by modelling apps; and a related tutorial (albeit for q3) was posted somewhere recently.

although, if you just need to bring down polycount, there are better methods you should try first, e.g. turning objects into func_walls, moving them 1 unit away from the adjacent surfaces, and upscaling textures.
Back to top
Sajt



Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Posts: 1026

PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reasons to NOT convert maps to models:

- You lose lightmapping and gain really crappy gourad shading
- You lose collision
- You gain crappy frustum culling glitches
- In software, you gain crappy clipping and no perspective correction
- MDLs compress vertex coordinates to bytes, so unless you divide the models into 256x256x256 chunks or something...
_________________
F. A. Špork, an enlightened nobleman and a great patron of art, had a stately Baroque spa complex built on the banks of the River Labe.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Error
Inside3D Staff


Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 558
Location: VA, USA

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a MDL->MAP converter...
_________________
Inside3D : Knowledge Is Power
Darkplaces Documentation Wiki
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Inside3d Forums Forum Index -> Mapping All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2004 phpBB Group