Mels is an open source library and component set, written in Delphi, and designed for Embarcadero RAD studio and Lazarus, that allows to include 3D models in your projects in a few clicks, just as any other graphical components.
- Simple shapes: surface, cube, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus and parabola
- Texturing for shapes
- Animated 3D models
- Ray picking, allowing e.g a mouse cursor to know on which part of the model it hovers
- Music player (.wav format)
Mels also provides you a direct access to to the component scene, allowing thus to customize it as you want.
The Mels library supports the following model formats:
- Quake I (.mdl)
- Quake II (.md2)
- Quake III (.md3)
Several plugins exist to export such models from Blender, you may find them on the following websites:
- Quake I (.mdl): http://quakeforge.net/files.php
- Quake II (.md2): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/topic/8175-md2-blender-importexport-add-on-early-release/
- Quake III (.md3): https://github.com/neumond/blender-md3
NOTE several versions of Blender may provide a .md2 importer/exporter natively.
For the beginners, here is also an interesting article about how to create a Quake I model with Blender: https://pnahratow.github.io/creating-models-for-quake-1.html
Mels depends on the following third-party libraries to compile:
- OpenGL
- OpenAL
- Glew
For Lazarus, the following module is also required:
- Generics.Collections
A copy of these libraries was added to the project, you can find them in the Library\Prerequisites\ folder.
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| Planetarium demo. |
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