NeonKnightOA / md3mdrscripts

Blender's MD3/MDR Script Fix and Adaptation Repository

Blender MD3-MDR import/export scripts repository

A repository housing many MD3/MDR import/export scripts for different versions of Blender.

#Sources

• Blender 2.7 MD3 Export Script @ Duke4.net
• Blender md3 import-export tool @ ModDB.com
• MD3 support for Blender (Repository) @ github.com/neumond
• XReaL SVN repository

Other links of interest

• Description of MD3 format
• Elite Force MDR format
• Dev:Py/Scripts @ BlenderWiki

To-Do

• Create Blender Python scripts for MDR import/export with full feature support, such as compression, tags, and LODs.
  • LOD selection export: LOD meshes shifted into different layers for organization, and object names given an _1 _2 respectively, having the exporter to also select those (if available) and export the selected object/armature along with the LOD mesh objects.
  • Unlike IQM, MDR is weighted bones on a skeleton without hierarchy and rather compressed bone data intended for loads of frames. It also has the ability to have internal LOD meshes in the same file.
• Create proper md3 exporters for later versions
  • They are known for having bounding box and normals issues. The bounding box is important since it's used for the renderer to occlude, and has a habit of doing a smallest bbox. For example, when making a little flare sprite surface on a railgun, when the flare is unseen, the whole gun is unseen. It's also almost impossible to make autosprites2 in them.