MD3 Format - [Quake 3
Character File
Format]
Author bkenwright@xbdev.net
Have you heard of the game quake?... well the quake file format
version 3 will be covered here...its very similar to the quake 2 version,
but they took it a bit further by splitting the mesh into various parts - so
you have a simplified animated boned character.
Well I decided the best way to introduce you to the file format,
is to give you it in main parts, first we'll describe how to extract a single
static 3D part of the .md2 file, then show you how the animated data is stored.
Then to top it all off, how to create classes which can be re-used over and
over again... first a simple class which is independent of DirectX and a efficient
DirectX3D class as well.
• Look inside...
• More bits & bytes
• Found you, you sneaky vertices.
• Bring in the other files
• What is it! Yikes (Tags)
• Basic Graphics - Proof that our vertices are right!
• Divide and Conquer
• Animated Character
• Give him a gun.
 | MD3 Example (JavaScript/WebGPU) |  |
Web-based Parser/Viewer. The loader is in Vanilla JavaScript with no external libraries - pretty compact 100ish lines - the render code to draw/visualize is the WebGPU API (again no external libraries - uses the builtin WebGPU API). In addition to drawing the 3d model - it loops over the frames (animates the mesh).
• JavaScript Loader/Viewer
| Resources | |
• Introduction WebGPU
• WebGPU Web-Based Loader/Viewer
• Details on MD3 Format
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