I've been searching for days for info on the steps to import a model from a 3D app (OBJ, LWO or ASE) into Q4 Radiant. I can find info on exporting from Radiant, and details about texture mapping, but the steps to get from an LWO file to an object in Radiant are always, it seems, missing. They just say "import into Radiant" without any how-to info.

I have created ASE models and placed them in a q4base/models/mapobjects/projname/model.ase location, expecting to see the model listed in the Model Browser, and then place it in my map from there. But I can't get it to show. Nor can I find any other method for getting the model into the game.

Can anyone guide me with a few steps, and/or point me at a tutorial or step-by-step please? This has got me perplexed and I'm beginning to feel like this...

edited on Jul. 5, 2007 02:43 am by hondaman900

I have a problem of my models showing black with no textures in game.. Its beena while, but you have to export to .ASE format, put in your mod file, or /q4base/models/mapobjects/custom for example.. and then you have to edit the .ASE file itself and replace the texture path with the proper texture path /q4base/textures/custom/renderbump.tga for example..
the models will import for me, but the textures dont come out and Im still trying to solve that issue.. good luck

oh, yeah, and then you have to create an .mtr script in materials folder that looks something like this..

// pillar building b support 2---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

models/mapobjects/custom/holoterminal
{
renderBump -size 512 512 -aa 2 -mergehigh -trace .07 models/mapobjects/custom/holoterminal.ase


bumpMap q4base/textures/custom/walls/paneled1_local.tga
diffusemap q4base/textures/custom/walls/paneled1_d.tga
specularmap q4base/textures/custom/walls/paneled1_s.tga
{
}

for your textures to come out right.. Im still working on this tho...