A "simple little" project I started three months ago. An attempt at remaking Quake3Arena's weapon models.
Quake III Arena HD Weapon Remake (ver. 0.8)
by: CannerZ45
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A "small and simple" project I started back in August 15, 2022. My aim is to remake the models of Quake 3's
weapon roster into something that looks good for modern resolution, while still being 100% compatible with Quake 3's original engine limitations.
Gauntlet and BFG are the only weapons left to remake.
Currently on hold as I got other things to take care of. But I will continue this at the start of next year.
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Installation:
Extract files "zzczhdwr1.pk3" and "zzczhdwr2.pk3", and move them inside the "baseq3" folder.
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Notes:
"zzczhdwr2.pk3" is an optional pak file that modifies weapon positions in first person view,
(for better model visibility on wider resolution and higher FOV) and has "punchier" weapon firing
animations. If you want to retain vanilla quake 3 weapon position and animations, simply
do not include this in the "baseq3" folder.
These guns look great. But they look too "zoomed out" if you set cg_fovAspectAdjust 1 in Quake3e.
edit: nevermind I deleted the zzczhdwr2.pk3 and now it looks great.
there's some great potential there! the caution tape slapped everywhere is a bit tacky... it was bad enough on the original GL! the skinning isn't as good as the geometry, some substance painter magic would work wonders. just my 2 cents, but fantastic work nonetheless, sill keep an eye out for updates
they re full of details... amazing work
Looks hella nice! Will you be giving the Team Arena weapons (Chaingun, Nailgun, Proximity Launcher) similar treatment later on?
I don't have, nor have the desire to get and play the TA expansion pack. So, no. Sorry.
those hd weapons remake are unbelievable
thanks man, waiting for the BFG and gauntlets
Can you make this railgun and trail like in the video?
I've been looking for this model for many many years......
Hey, it looks astonishing! That's the best Q3 weapon skins i've seen, shame i can't try them right now, as i don't have Quake 3
Too bad you don't plan to work on Team Arena guns too, back in the day i enjoyed TA quite a lot, so they will be missed. In any case, TA already comes pre-packaged with Q3 on Steam and GOG, so at least it's free
Holy ****! It looks awesome! I do like to use them in quake 3, but if it was possible to also use them in UT2004 it would be even cooler! To bad I don't understand how to port such things =/
Man, i really hope you do finish those. They are good Q3 weapon remakes without just retexturing the stock models or distorting them / subdividing vertices. Nice work.
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Ok after an in depth test of the pack I would say it is very, very good visually. The only critques so far are the overly chunky LG and overly sized textures
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