## WARNING: This tutorial is under construction!

Blender version recommended: 2.79b or later *(if you want to contribute, it's strongly important use 2.79b for compatibility cases, they need to open from this version).*

Requires [iqm plugin](https://gitlab.com/xonotic/iqm) as addon for Blender. 

# Introduction to export a weapon
**Keep in mind about weapon systems:**

- `g_*.md3`: model mesh for item pickup spawn and third person.
- `h_*.iqm`: for first person animations; the skeleton and the bones (the rigging and animation part). Keep in mind, you would need `*.iqm.framegroups` (more info: [Framegroups](https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/-/wikis/framegroups), you can look `*.iqm.framegroups` opening a notepad to see what animations contain and the keyframes where these are set)
- `v_*.md3`: model mesh for first person and a glue of `h_*`; if `h_*.iqm` doesn't match with the animations needed of `v_*.md3`, it will generate spamming errors and bad pivot position.

More info: [Weapon modeling system](Weaponsystem)


# Textures and UV map

Keep in mind, when you've done your UV map in your model, you need to set this:
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<img src="uploads/efee46a2a80a232ebe5fa63e30f4e2d9/Md3exp.png" alt="Md3exp" width="300" />
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Texture must:

- be of **Image** type
- mapping type **UV**
- have UV map assigned

otherwise resulting data block will be filled with zeroes.
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<img src="uploads/c48fb7565453eab24faca2d6ffec4347/Md3_textures.png" alt="Md3_textures" width="360" />
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[Blender reference about UV in MD3](https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/MD3/)