MDL File Format

[Oxters]

Recently I wrote C# code for Unity to build a BSP map into the scene. This link helped me out a lot. Now I am working on doing the same for MDL, of course there is also a page for the MDL format, but it does not have nearly as much information. I might be able to decipher a good amount with the header alone, but there are a lot of other things missing compared to the BSP page. Does anyone know where I can find more information about the MDL format?

[Stroyed]

You could try doing some quake research. That's where all of these kinds of files originated.

[Oxters]

Thank you Stroyed :) I will have a look and see if I find anything

[phillippi2]

.mdl is actually a grouping of multiple files and scripts, sort of like Zip files. Each one holds all the information for a given entity used by Source Engine. This includes Geometry, Scripts, Animations, Sounds, Textures and Properties.

[Rectus]

Also, the Crowbar model decompiler is open source, if you don't mind reading Visual Basic code.

[Oxters]

Thank you phillippi2 and Rectus for the input. Actually I am taking the course of action you suggested Rectus, but there's a lot of code to sift through to get to what I want, and not a lot of commenting. Thankfully the naming of variables and methods are straight forward, so it's still easy to follow.