Hey, i was wondering if anyone knew of a tutorial about loading and animating .mdl, the halflife model files. Im pretty new to opengl, im reading up and can do a decent amount of stuff, but loading models is still out of reach, the file formats and headers and just loading them in general is taking me a while to figure out. I am going over a tutorial about .md2 model files, which hopefuly i can reproduce in my own soon, but well i don''t know how and really don''t want to learn how to model and compile and animate .md2. I already know how to do animation compiling for .mdl so if anyone knows of a tutorial on .mdl it would be much appreciate, i know it is a lot different from .md2 since .md2 is just keyframe (i think) and .mdl is using "bones". -Maz

Here you will find not a tutorial, but the actual code. Perhaps you can follow it to help you learn it yourself.

Click here for mdl code

[edited by - dachande on March 13, 2002 11:03:42 AM]

Hey thanks a lot, for some reason in VC 6 it give an illegal operation once it compiles and runs it, but if i manually run the .exe it works, this hopefully will be very helpfull thanks a lot

-Maz