Quake and Hexen II MDL Importer and Exporter for Blender 2.8+

Import and Export ID's Quake and Ravensoft's Hexen II MDL models to and from Blender 2.8+

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About

This model exporter/importer is a fork of Blender MDL import/export by QuakeForge.

This versions is updated to work with Blender 2.8 or greater and has some new features such as support for Hexen II palette. Some cues were taken from Khreator adaptation to MDL Exporter for Blender 2.8+. It can be found here.

How to Contribute

On Github

• Create issues with a description and a minimum of steps to reproduce if it's a bug
• Submit feature requests
• Contact me to contribute with pull requests

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Roadmap

Latest new features added

• Import/Export scale adjusts for the model and the eyeposition tag
• Support for Hexen II palette on the Import/Export file menu
• Better support for skins
• Emissive material added automatically
• Support for Hexen II Portals of Praevus model format
• Added import and export support for Hexen II model flags

TO DO

• Add the option to exclude brightmap colours from the texture conversion process, approximating textures colours to only the non-bright palette colours
• Add support for custom palettes
• Add support for boilerplate QuakeC
• Major refactor code for speed and organization