War3Mdlx

A command line tool to convert warcraft 3 model file: *.mdl <-> *.mdx

Usage

# convert mdl to mdx (omit output path)
$ war3mdlx input.mdl
# convert mdx to mdl
$ war3mdlx input.mdx output.mdl
# convert mdx to mdl (walk through directory hierarchy)
$ war3mdlx --mdx2l input/path output/path
# all available options
$ war3mdlx -h
Usage: war3mdlx [OPTIONS] <INPUT>

Options:
  -1, --mdl2x                     Convert *.mdl to *.mdx
  -2, --mdx2l                     Convert *.mdx to *.mdl
  -B, --mdl-rgb                   Make sure colors are in RGB order in mdl files
  -F, --flat                      Put output files in one directory and ignore hierarchy
  -f, --overwrite                 Overwrite existing output files [default: skip]
  -e, --stop-on-error             Stop walking the directory hierarchy when an error occurs
  -d, --max-depth <0..255>        Max depth of directory traversal [default: 255]
  -p, --precision <0..255>        Max precision of decimal numbers when converted to text [default: 4]
  -n, --line-ending <CR|LF|CRLF>  Used when writing text files [default: CRLF] [possible values: CR, LF, CRLF]
  -i, --indent <Ns|Nt>            Used when writing text files (e.g. 1t: one tab, 4s: four spaces) [default: 1t]
  -q, --quiet                     Do not print log messages
  -v, --verbose...                Print verbose log messages (-vv very verbose)
  -h, --help                      Print help
  -V, --version                   Print version

Build

When you are in the root directory of the project, run the following command to build the binary:

$ cargo build --release

This is a Rust project, so you need to install rust and cargo to build it.