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NPherno's GL Viewer

by            rogue13             - Download             it here

Tools needed            for this program

Npherno's            GL viewer

A            Quake 2 model

A            video car with good Open GL support

Skins            to put on the model

Time            and patience

Overview

This            is to be a help file / tutorial / read me text for the GL viewer. This viewer is pure GL. It will not run on sub standard cards,            nor will it run on 3DFX based cards that use the proprietary Glide             drivers. It needs to be the real thing.

If            your running a TNT based card, you are set. That's what it was built            and tested on, both in Win 98 and NT4. Other cards may or may            not be able to provide the proper platform. Next is a list of            cards that we know of after beta testing, if you have another type             and have success or not, we'd love to hear about it to add to the             list here:

So now you're            asking me "What is this thing and why should I use it?" Well that's understandable, plenty of people use Skinview and find            this sort of thing useless. Fine, this app is about creating            some excellent views of your model with colored lighting and a 4             pass rendering system. Yep, that means four skins per model. This is what id has say will be available to us for Quake3 models. If it doesn't happen for Q3, it is somewhat already part of Half            Life, which does offer specularity texture maps for the models. So you can sort of "practice" now plus getting some superb            images for your models which is always an excellent thing.

The            Installation

1.            Unzip the two files into a directory. How about            "c:\NGLV"

2.            Make an icon for yourself in the appropriate spot, I chose my             desktop.

3.            Double click on the icon of love and you're in.

Using the            Viewer



On            this first edition of the readme for the viewer, I'm basically going             to call out what everything is and then refine later.

I            also suggest you get at least the [../../../models2/unit01.htm Unit01 model] that is             shown above as it was released with all 4 skins in .bmp format             already. The other two Unit models 00 and 02 were not released            with the GLV skins, but they were made. Here's a link to get them            separately if you already have those models and would like to test             the viewer with more that just one model.

Unit 00/02 GL skins                for the Nglv

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 * Left Mouse Button
 * Right Mouse Button
 * Shift
 * Crtl
 * Left and Right Arrow Buttons
 * Regular models and skins
 * Multiple Lights
 * Crtl
 * Left and Right Arrow Buttons
 * Regular models and skins
 * Multiple Lights
 * Regular models and skins
 * Multiple Lights
 * Regular models and skins
 * Multiple Lights
 * Multiple Lights