Questions

[tZork]

Q3 engine? You must have misunderstood something my friend. Darkplaces is based on the Q1 engine.

Yeah, DP's a heavily modified Q1 engine.
Although the Devs are probably flattered that you thought it was Q3!

Why? q3 is in many ways a lesser engine.

why on earth would you use a modified version of the Q1 engine??

And no, I havnt seen someone make a player model thats 32k polys but I know how the Q3 engine works, and I guess it doesnt matter since your not using the Q3 engine..

Funny. you do know there's a difference between format limitations and practical application, right? Anyway, if you wish to do so with Daprkpalces/Nexuiz it does support the md3 format. i am sure DPM supports even more if you cant get it slow enough with md3's

[iSuck]

Tangent-space FTW!
Yah, it's even a misnomer to say it's a derivative of Q1, seeing as Q2, 3, and 4 are also derivatives of Q1. Try to just not think about it in terms of which Quake it's based on, more by the Quake it's equivalent to. Nexuiz has advanced only slightly slower that Quake itself, so it's practically at the level of Q4, but lacking in the commercial optimization.
Would someone please explain what it means for a playermodel to be optimized or not? I don't really understand that except when my framerate drops by 30fps per rendered player.

[ihsan]

Tangent-space FTW!

When I imported a zbrush model into a map, I was disappointed to see how it looked.
Although DP renders the normalmaps beautifully, the realtime shadows made the polygon edges VERY visible. On a realistic model it just looked wierd and buggy. No screenshots (as i'm not on my own pc) but I had better overall results making them manually.
Just an off-topic observation.