Creating new models for Quake 2 has never been easier!

Export your models from Blender 5.x to Quake 2 MD2 in just a second!

Features at a glance.

• Export all animations.
• Optimized normal generation for proper lighting support.
• Export your textures directly to 8bit PCX using Quake 2 palette.
• Dither your texture using Quake 2 palette for better viewing experience.
• Export C header file definitions for easy integration into the Quake 2 engine.

Fine-grained animation export.

Select what actions to export as animations. You can specify the frame-range (start/end) for each action. Also, you can set how often a frame should be exported to md2 by specifying the sample fequency: If you want to export every single frame, set it to 1. If you want to export only every 10th frame, set it to 10. And so on.

Dithering support for PCX files.

If you have created your textures in 24bit (millions of colors) but want to make them work in Quake 2 you can use the dithering option of Ultimate md2 for PCX output. Here is an example of a texture created in 24 bit truecolor and output to PCX without and with dithering. Notice the difference?

Both images contain the same amount of colors. Both only contain 256 colors that are availabe through the Quake 2 colorpalette. The only difference is, that the right version is dithered.

Full control over skins.

Write skin-names directly into the md2 file. You can also provide an image-base-path, which the Quake 2 engine uses to determine a model's skin location.

Also export the original image-file next to your md2. You can also export directly to PCX. No need to convert to PCX in external applications!

How to install.

After downloading, unpack the zip file. Inside you will find another zip called umd2-<version>.zip. That is the actual Blender-plugin you have to install.

If you're familiar with Blender plugins you can install it like any other plugin.

If you need some help you can find documentation inside the docs/ folder as regular HTML. Just double-click index.html and you browser should open it.