Modding Characters

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For information on the character models, see this thread: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=587

[KadaverJack]

K I followed daves directions and badda bing the annoying music is gone :p I suppose if i want to go back i just delete the ogg vorbis file right? anyway ty for the music help but i still don't c the .zym files.... can some1 telll me which pk3 file to extract?
(Srry for beign a noob)

the large data<some date>.pk3, but the zym files won't help you much...

All source files for the models are available here: http://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/modelsource/
models.zip has all meshes in *.3ds format, players.zip contains the models and animations in *.smd (half-life) format, which is needed to generate *.zym files (the converter (zmodel) is included as exe, sources are available here).

@torus: zym is not proprietary. smd, which is needed to compile zym files is, but zym itself is free. But since smd seems to be poorly supported by modelling tools (the only working exporter requires 3ds max afaik) we want to get rid of zym asap...

[torus]

That makes sense.

[ihsan]

But since smd seems to be poorly supported by modelling tools (the only working exporter requires 3ds max afaik) we want to get rid of zym asap...

If a zmodel was made which would parse .3ds or .obj (text) files the problem is solved.

[ai]

But since smd seems to be poorly supported by modelling tools (the only working exporter requires 3ds max afaik) we want to get rid of zym asap...

Maya also have a plugin which you need to install to export and import .smd. It works with versions 4-8.5 iirc. It is Here. It says 4-7 but it works with my 8.5 too.

[DeadlySnyper]

oh and last question to add to this topic
If after u have exported as a.zym file what do u replace to get ur char. in game?
(or do u not?)

[KadaverJack]

oh and last question to add to this topic
If after u have exported as a.zym file what do u replace to get ur char. in game?
(or do u not?)

Copy it to Nexuiz/data/models/player/<yourmodel>.zym. You can test is in local games with

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chase_active 1 # 3rd person mode, so you can actually see the model
playermodel models/player/<yourmodel>.zym

To get the new model listed in the menu, you need a text file (<yourmodel>.txt) and a preview image (<yourmodel>.jpg/.tga/.png).
The text file should look like this:

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<insert the full name for your model here>
models/player/<yourmodel>   # this points to the preview image (without file extention)
0   # the skin index (a model can have several skins, indentified by a number)
models/player/<yourmodel>.zym   # the actual model file to use

<cool bio/infos for your character>

Unfortunately, your can't use your model in an online game, since there is no way to distribute models between all clients (if the server doesn't know your model, it gets reverted to "marine"). However if you host your own server, you could use it & provide the model as download.

[DeadlySnyper]

Ah okay ty