[Openquartz-general] modelgen re-revisited

[Seth G. <sga...@li...>]

I have been working on getting all the .mdl files compiling from source
files and ran into trouble with flame.mdl, which in our case has an
animated skin group.  An animated skin group is a series of skins that
automatically cycles, but appears to be one skin as far as the QuakeC is
concerned.

First I had to update skinless to read past the skin groups properly to
get at the texture coordinate data.  Then I discovered that I still
couldn't compile the model with modelgen.

It turns out modelgen never did write skin group data - even though
the Quake engine does and modelgen has partial support for skin groups -
because none of the Quake models actually used the feature.

So I went ahead and implemented skin group writing in modelgen.
The code is now in CVS (utils module) and only a few .mdl files remain in
the pak0 modules (viewmodels, monsters and player model.)  and once these
are ready to compile with modelgen we'll only have one more compiling
utility challenge:  compiling the maps.
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