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Now once you have everything ready, there are 2 paths you can take. to get the pallet, go into your pak0.pak file and extract the pallet from the colormap.pcx, if you dont have a way to get inside the file, alternatively go into your players folder and get the pallet from any of the character textures you find there, the only problem is that some of the tones will be missing and replaced by a white color.

Now, quake 2 uses 256 color mode pcx file format with a custom pallet, when making a texture, use the colors in the quake 2 pallet for the best results afterwords when converting your texture into the q2 256 color mode pcx file using the q2 pallet. also dunno why but all the player chars i have for my q2 never exceeds 256x256, i hope there is no real reason for it and i will not run into some problems in the future because of my texture resolution being too big xD the normal quake2 texture resolution is 256x256 but you can go higher than that, the limit is somewhere between 350x350 and 400x400, my model has a 350x350 resolution. Once you finished and tested your model in game, begin making the UV, again here it doesn't really mater how you do it either, it only has to have a single material and a single texture so try to put everything on the UV map as tidy as you can to use up the space efficiently. the gun however needs to be a separate layer or file. also the model doesnt have to be one piece, as in, parts of it dont have to be connected to each other, it only needs to be a single object layer. an md2 file supports up to 4k tris but the game itself has a limit somewhere between 2k and 3k, its allways a good idea to test export your model and try to load it in the game before proceeding to any uv mapping or rigging.ītw it has to be all tris so convert it to tris before exporting.

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Start modeling your character with the modeling software of your choice, doesnt really mater how you do it just make sure you dont go over 2k tris cuz theres a limit, i dont know exactly what it is tho but considering that normally quake 2 models are like 500 tris so 2k would be like 4 times the normal amount.

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Im gonna make a tutorial on how to make quake chars in the future when i have a site for that but for now a quick sumary of what you need to do: Thanks, well i couldnt find much useful resources myself, most sites are long dead and the remaining ones use methods that are pretty complicated

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Now i remember back in my old skin making days i had the same problem, but i dont remember how did i solve that problem exactly.įinally out of desperation i darkened the texture image to make it too dark and re saved it to pcx with the q2 pallet and when the game brightened the texture, it started to look about right like it was intended to look like, only the quality suffered alot because of this up and down in brightness and applying the pallet on an improper brightness image nothing worked, i kept getting the same bright texture. I tried lots of things, extracting the pallet from an original quake2 pcx file, downloading a few pallets from the internet, tried darkening the pcx textures i already saved. i created a few textures using the quake2 pallet and it looked all good in the editor but when i loaded them in the game, the textures where burning bright! Now the modeling part went smoothly, but making the textures gave me a headache. the only thing as close to my own characters i did was making skins for existing player models.īut not so long ago i realized that i already have everything i lacked back than to make my character so i immediately got to work

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When i was a kid, i loved the sh-t out of quake2 and i also loved making maps and mods and what not, but there was this one thing i couldn't make cuz i didnt have the necessary knowledge, skill and programs but it was also a thing i wanted to make alot. Polycount was one of those iconic names back than like planet quake and gamespy and i hope this is the same polycount that i think it is xD Hello, i hope i registered on the right forum xD i know most quake related stuff was made by the folks of the polycount forum.

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