Working on a model last week, I figured out that I have to get accustomed to a paint tool to paint directly on a model. Blacksmith3D is such great free tool.
Problem: I always build my model in MED. How can I export a model from MED to a program like Blacksmith3D. I thought blender does the job, but it doesn't import mdls, only export. Searching in the poor man's list, I stumbled over freemotion. Import into freemotion, export as md2, import md2 into blender, export obj.
In Blacksmith3D you have to find the different options first, but after that:
violà, I enjoy it!

if possible you shouldn't use md2. it's a very bad format because it packs each coordinate into one byte. this means that you lose a lot of precision since the bounding box of the model gets subdivided 256 times along each axis and the vertices snap to this grid.

why did he paint his face with a felt pen? looks scary.

You are right. I know about the md2 format and it's backdraws, but I didn't find any other format that is common of fragmotion and blender.

I forgot to mention that I don't re-import this md2-model. I only export the painted picture, and import it in MED. The uv-mesh seems to be untouched by the reduction of the md2-format.

I know that this isn't a good example of proper work of a modeler, the model is quit old and lowpoly, and far from being optimized at all.

I simply like the sketch-like look. It looks like a crinkled sheet of paper, painted in rough lines with felt pen and watercolors.

Well, seems like a handy methode you experimented with Pappenheimer
Btw, I hope you're not a religous man

Cheers

Frazzle

Since he looks kinda like Benedict XVI, the current pope

Cheers

Frazzle

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