Quake MDL Tool

Assets

Drop files or click to browse .mdl / .pak / .lmp

Palette

Default Quake palette

Current model

None

Skins

Show skin polys

Skin

No skin loaded

Palette Mapping

Source: none

Target: none

Click source colors, pick a target, then apply. Double-click a target swatch to remap immediately.

Reserved Palette Indices

In Quake's 256-color palette, the main reserved entries are the fullbright range 224-255, which stay bright regardless of lighting, the transparency index 255, which is commonly used as the masked "hole" color for sprites, fence textures, and some model rendering, and the two player colormap translation bands 16-31 for shirt/top colors and 96-111 for pants/bottom colors.

There is also one special case for console characters, where both palette index 0 and 255 are treated as transparent. In practice, that means the usable visible fullbright colors are really 224-254, because 255 is usually consumed by transparency rather than shown as a normal glowing color.

Object Tools

Move

X Y Z

Rotate

X Y Z

Scale

X Y Z

Scope

Mode

Load a `.mdl` or `pak0.pak` to begin.