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Yeah, this is user (or modder, more like) error.

The fact that it works despite being incorrect, however... that's another story.

He was referring to setting it wrong in Spooktober's MODELDEF file. Talon1024 is the one you want if something with OBJs is broken. He's the one I had to contact when I discovered that the triangle loader was backwards and he fixed it.

[quote="Marisa Kirisame"]Ah, that was a typo from my part it seems. I was meant to set the model indices to 0 and 1 but instead I set the frames. (I'm surprised it worked anyway)[/quote]

So what about a fix?

[quote="Marisa Kirisame"](I'm surprised it worked anyway)[/quote]
Exactly! It just accepts anything you throw at it, it's not even printing out an warning.

Ah, that was a typo from my part it seems. I was meant to set the model indices to 0 and 1 but instead I set the frames. (I'm surprised it worked anyway)

Model SchoolTable
{
   Model 0 "models/table1.obj"
   Model 1 "models/table2.obj"
   Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
   Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
   Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
   FrameIndex STIM A 0 -1
   FrameIndex STIM A 1 0
}

Well,

[code]Model SchoolTable
{
Model 0 "models/table1.obj"
Model 1 "models/table2.obj"
Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
FrameIndex STIM A 0 -1
FrameIndex STIM A 1 0
}[/code]

still renders both models for me.

The wiki entry for MODELDEF sems to be incorrect regarding the option to "turn off" a model for certain actor frames if the model's frame is -1. I noticed that before and it makes things like guns that should only show a muzzleflash sub-model for one frame a hassle because you have to have two MODELDEF entries for that (one with all frames without the muzzleflash, one for the single frame with the muzzleflash).

[url=https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=124&t=62684&p=1081206&hilit=modeldef#p1081206][MD3] Using "-1" for model frame numbers to hide them[/url]

Model "SchoolTable"
{
	Path "models/flow"
	Model 0 "table1.obj"
	Model 1 "table2.obj"
	Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
	Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
	Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
	FrameIndex TABL A 0 0
	FrameIndex TABL A 0 1
}

Model SchoolTable
{
	Model 0 "models/table1.obj"
	Model 1 "models/table2.obj"
	Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
	Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
	Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
	FrameIndex STIM A 3 -894898
	//FrameIndex STIM A 0 12
}

So I'm in the process of adding OBJ support to GZDB-BF, and I noticed that OBJ models are handled in an weird (and as I understand incorrect way).

As a test case I used [url=https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=62163]Spooktober[/url], which has a table made ob OBJ models. The table is made from two OBJs, one for the legs, one for the top of the table. The MODELDEF looks like this:

[code]Model "SchoolTable"
{
Path "models/flow"
Model 0 "table1.obj"
Model 1 "table2.obj"
Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
FrameIndex TABL A 0 0
FrameIndex TABL A 0 1
}[/code]

So, according to the FrameIndex lines it uses Frame 0 and 1 of model 0, which doesn't make sense. However, it works fine in-game. I played around a bit with FrameIndex, and it looks like it's completely irrelevant what you set as model and frame, it always displays all specified models. Even if try to use different models for different frames it will always display all models.

I made a bare-bones example (see attachment) that displays the whole table, even though the FrameIndex line doesn't make sense whatsoever:

[code]Model SchoolTable
{
Model 0 "models/table1.obj"
Model 1 "models/table2.obj"
Skin 0 "FLOWTEX9"
Skin 1 "FLOWTEXA"
Scale 0.5 0.5 0.6
FrameIndex STIM A 3 -894898
//FrameIndex STIM A 0 12
}[/code]
So model 0 and 1 are defined, FrameIndex says to display frame -894898 of model 3... and it displays model 0 and 1 in-game.