Contents

• Overview

  • Help! What should I read first!?
  • Misfit Model 3D Introduction
  • The Main Window

• Using Misfit Model 3D

  • Faces
  • Grouping
  • Texturing
  • Joints
  • Animations

Window-specific Help

• Main Window
• Properties Panel
• Materials Window
• Groups Window
• Texture Coordinates Window
• Texture Projection Window
• Joints Window
• Align Selection Window
• Animation Sets Window
• Animation Mode Window
• Export Animation Window
• Convert To Frame Window
• Merge Window
• Select Background Image Window
• Spherify Window
• Plugins Window
• Model Meta Data Window

• Tool-specific Help

  • Select
  • Move
  • Rotate
  • Scale
  • Shear
  • Attract Near
  • Attract Far
  • Move Background Image
  • Scale Background Image
  • Create Rectangle
  • Create Cube
  • Create Ellipsoid
  • Create Cylinder
  • Create Torus
  • Create Polygon
  • Create Bone Joint
  • Create Point
  • Create Texture Projection

• Command-specific Help

  • Undo
  • Redo
  • Invert Selection
  • Hide
  • Delete
  • Duplicate
  • Copy Selected to Clipboard
  • Paste from Clipboard
  • Flip
  • Flatten
  • Extrude
  • Invert Normals
  • Weld Vertices
  • Unweld Vertices
  • Subdivide Faces
  • Make Face From Vertices
  • Rotate Texture Coordinates
  • Align Selected
  • Spherify
  • Assign Vertices to Bone Joint

• Command line Help

  • Overview
  • Options

• Development

  • Contributing
  • Plugins

• MM3D File Format

  • Overview
  • File Header
  • Data Offsets
  • Data Offset Types
  • Data Blocks
  • Data Block Types
  • Example Hex Dump

• Quake MD2 Notes

  • Loading Skins And Textures
  • Animations
  • Triangle Strips

• Quake MD3 Notes

  • Model Types
  • Tags
  • Animations
  • Paths
  • Skins And Textures
  • MD3 Limits

Overview

Help! What should I read first!?

Here is a short list of the most useful documentation.

• This page is a very brief introduction to Misfit Model 3D. If you are new to MM3D, read this first.
• The Quick Tips page contains a list of things that every regular user should be aware of. If you are impatient and only want to read one document, Quick Tips is the one to read.
• The Main Window documentation gives you an overview of the user interface and a high-level description of the program's features.
• See the details index for information on specific topics.
• The Tutorial is not yet written. When it is done it will walk you through real-world usage examples for all the essential modeling features.
• Everything else is reference material for specific topics.

Note: This documentation is in the process of being updated for Version 1.4. Some documentation may still refer to older versions of the software.

Misfit Model 3D Introduction

Misfit Model 3D is an application that allows users to create and modify triangle-based models. It currently supports a variety of 3D vertex manipulation tools as well as texturing and animations. There is a plugin system so that extensions can be written to provide more tools, commands, or model import and export filters.

Currently Misfit Model 3D has its own file format, but can also export models in the Quake MD2 and MD3, Cal 3D, Milkshape 3D, COB, DXF, and OBJ file formats.

When you start Misfit Model 3D you will see the Main Window. The Main Window has a set of viewports that act as a canvas for model manipulation and a tool bar that provides interactive model manipulation features. There can be multiple Main Windows, one for each model that is open.

See the Main Window documentation to get an overview of Misfit Model 3D's user interface as well as links to more specific feature information.