Downloads

Half-Life Model Viewer v1.25

• hlmv125.zip (378 Kb, contains setup with viewer, full source code and mxToolKit)

Half-Life Model Viewer v1.24

• hlmviewer12.zip (114 Kb, contains self-installing setup.exe)
• hlmviewer12_le.zip (39 Kb, without 3Dfx miniGL)
• hlmviewer12_src.zip (52 Kb, source code)
• hlmviewer12.tar.gz (50 Kb, Qt Free Edition 1.42, linux version)

Half-Life Models

• www.planethalflife.com

Shortcuts

• g: toggle ground
• m: toggle mirror on ground
• b: toggle background
• s: toggle stencil buffer
• h: toggle hitboxes
• +: increase animation speed
• -: decrease animation speed
• 1: wireframe
• 2: flatshaded
• 3: smoothshaded
• 4: textured
• 5: more transparency
• 6: less transparency
• ESC: quit fullscreen

Notes

Known bugs and limitations

• You just can load background/ground textures from 24-bit .tga, 8-bit .pcx, 8-bit .bmp, which have width/height with power of 2 (e.g. 128x64)

Features

Added to version 1.24 (Oct 20 1999)

• Stop animation playing, previous frame, set frame, next frame
• Scale of mesh, scale of bones

Added to version 1.23 (Jul 06 1999)

• Just some bugfixes, if you don't have problems, there is no need for a download.

Added to version 1.22 (Jun 03 1999)

• Show attachment points (this can be useful for mod developers)
• Fixed default .tga extension in "Make Screenshot..."
    (thanks to Nemesis from Aftershock Productions for this report!)
• Added commandline support. You can view a model with "hlmv.exe model.mdl". To add the right file association in windows, open the windows explorer, right-click any .mdl file, choose "Open with...", write a file extension description and choose "hlmv.exe" from your installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Half-Life Model Viewer\").
    (thanks to Nemesis from Aftershock Productions for this suggestion!)

Added to version 1.21 (May 5 1999)

• Better hitbox rendering
• Ported to Linux

Added to version 1.2 (Apr 29 1999)

• User adjustable file associations in pak file
    (thanks to autolycus from the Half-Life ERC for his suggestion)
• Recent Models
• Recent PAK files
• removed stupid chrome bug
• Asynchronous sound playing
• Fixed bone rendering

Added to version 1.1 (Apr 26 1999)

• Model transparency
• Show bones
• Show complex hit boxes
• Select skin from skin families
• View/select model textures, change chrome effect, view-scale, import/export tetxures, re-save model
• Improved bone controller stuff
• Modified PAK file viewer, you now can double-click items to load them directly, or right-click for a popupmenu
• Play sound directly from PAK file
• Extract any file from PAK file

Added to version 1.0 (Apr 10 1999)

• View Half-Life Models
• PAK file support, load models directly from PAK files
• Use mouse for rotating (left-drag), zooming (right-drag) and x-y-panning (shift-left-drag)
• Wireframe, flatshaded, smoothshaded, textured (with chrome effects)
• Optional ground, mirror model on ground, optional background
• Selectable animation, adjustable animation speed
• Change submodel for each available bodypart
• Select bone controllers and adjust its value (open mouth, rotate head, ...)
• Model info
• Fullscreen support, optionally for 3dfx with miniGL, user adjustable resolutions
• Load background texture, ground texture
• Change background color, ground color and light color
• Make .tga screenshot
• Portable to X11, because of mxToolKit
• Full source code available

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