.obj support?

(SenDep7) #1

just wondering if anyone ever got .obj working in gtkradiant/q3map2/q3 the models load fine for me but i still cant figure out the shader paths thing. I’ve tried every combination of each. but still no textures in radiant OR quake3 :frowning:

i’ve seen the solutions converting via milkshape, but i couldnt even get that to work either with .obj or .md3 i used to have md3’s working with 3d studio, but i’ve since migrated to maya. and prefer the ascii .obj file format.

Any help would be appreciated.

-SenDep7

(obsidian) #2

Does Maya have support for ASE export? If so, or if you can get a plugin to export to ASE, then you can follow the instructions here for setting up the materials for ASE:

http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000004/HTML/20031022-6-026044.html

Also, remember that file paths for anything used in Q3 needs to have forward slashes “/”.

BTW, you’re not putting your models in the gtkradiant/q3map2/q3 directory are you? Models for vanilla Q3 should go in:
C:\Q3installdir\baseq3\models\mapobjects\yourdir\

(SenDep7) #3

i couldnt find any options for ase export and maya.

and the maya md3 plugin is too old for maya 6.

i knew about the “/” issue from working with max/md3

so is the .obj support just completely broken in q3map2/radiant? or what?

why bother having it if its useless?

my 2 cents.

i suppose i could use doom3ed to do some obj–>.map conversion… but that might be a pain.

oo one last question… does a model NEED a shader? or can i just assign a .tga and expect it to work without a shader(assuming the path is correct)?