Dpm models for Xonotic¶

1st you need dpm compiler, get it from http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/files , search for dpmodel(blahblah).zip, try to get latest one

2nd you need hl2 smd exporter for your modeling application:

3dsmax version 6-8 : http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/3dsmax.php

Maya : check here http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Maya

Blender : there was working smd exporter fixed by div0 at Xonotic forums but now its not available

there are 2 types of smd files

reference smd, that contain bones and mesh and uv coords

animation smd, that contain only animation data, each animation is in separate file

if you are using same skeleton for many models you can share animation files

dpmodel converter takes these smd files and make single dpm file that contains all model info and animations inside, lately it started to generate .framegroups file too, we will need this one, it will spit lots of other strange file but you wont need them

dpmodel need configuration file, its just simple text file

it looks like that:

# save the model as box.dpm
model box
# move the model this much before saving
origin 0 0 0
# rotate the model 0 degrees around vertical
rotate 0
# scale the model by this amount, 0.5 would be half size and 2.0 would be doule size
scale 1
# allows .framegroups file generation
framegroups
# load the mesh file, first reference then animation files
scene ref.smd
scene idle.smd fps 30
scene pain.smd fps 30 noloop
scene death.smd fps 10 noloop

I think that comments explained it all quite well :)

you run dpmodel.exe configfile.txt

and that all