Doom3world

Links here are dead...

the instuructions on idDevNet are.. well.. HAAHAH!

"Getting a static model (like a trash can or a shrubery) in to the game is really easy. Doom 3 reads lwo (lightwave) and ase (3dsmax) files natively so you simply save out the model in one of those two formats and you can use it in the game."

... oh, its easy... nice guys, "is really easy" is not an explanation.

Where do the files need to be and how do I bring them into QuakeEdit?

Static models are assigned to entities via the "model" key/value pair. There is a button for this on the entity inspector. It brings up a dialogue and you simply point it to a model.

It's a good idea to save your models somewhere in the "baseq4/models" directory.

thanks Rich. Learning this map editor is very aggravating. My mouse has been in my hand, arm wound up, aimed at my LCD several times now. So far my LCD has been saved by shouting a few curse words.

I did find the answer I was looking for, you right click in the top view port and select 'New Model' then navigate to the path under q4base to where the model is saved. Seems like what you said brings up the same window.

now the guessing game of figuring out why these shaders are not working so my textures will appear...

Ensure the surface name is the same as the material shader name.

For instance, if the material shader looks like this...



Then the surface name in Lightwave should be "textures/example/foo".

i pieced bits of info from other people having problems together got some sleep, woke up and figured it out pretty easy. Thanks for you help Rich.

A bit of handy info I havent seen written yet but opened models and created boxes to figure out is:

1 meter in LW = 1 unit in QuakeEditor