S: What are the advantages of using MD2?

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Happy Sammy (Posted 2008) [#1]

Hi all, What are the advantages of using MD2 over .b3d,.3ds or .x? Thanks in advance

Nate the Great (Posted 2008) [#2]

I like b3d better personally since it was made for blitz3d games.

Naughty Alien (Posted 2008) [#3]

way faster

Matty (Posted 2008) [#4]

Although there was a thread posted by Pete Carter ( I think) several months back which mentioned that the speed difference was negligible or slower on modern ATI cards.

Happy Sammy (Posted 2008) [#5]

Thank you, Nate the Great, Naughty Alien and Matty. I thought you are talking about this thread: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=68476#796338

Zeotrope (Posted 2008) [#6]

MD2's are pretty good...and pretty fast. There is however a downfall; they are not pickable entities; which means, you cannot use Linepick / Camerapick commands on these. This doenst mean you cannot use them in a FPS etc., it means that you may need to apply 'hit boxes' to them to simulate legs / torso / arms and head. This could be looked at as a plus! Why arent they pickable? Not sure. But they are ok most other usage as well as animation. Animated B3d would be the optimal....as Nate says, the format was made for B3D. Hope this helps a little.

Happy Sammy (Posted 2008) [#7]

Thank you, ThermO. :D

CodeOrc (Posted 2008) [#8]

yeah, I am using CameraPick on my MD2's, but I assign a EntityBox instead of an EntityRadius. It works great!!