Title    : Quake2 to VRML2.0 converter
Filename : qpub.zip
Version  : 0.95
OS       : Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT
Date     : 01 July 1998
Author   : Ildar Khairoutdinov
Email    : ild@paragraph.ru
Web site : http://www.paragraph.ru/qpub


Features
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QPublisher is a program to convert Quake2 levels into VRML2.0 files.
Some of the features are:

- Converts PACK files as well as BSP files.

- Extracts wall and sky textures from the PACK file and converts it
  into GIF and JPEG file formats.

- Extracts submodels (doors, buttons, etc.).

- Extracts sound files and stores volume information into VRML file.

- Reduces face count by merging suitable faces.

- Improves rendering speed by splitting the map into a number of
  clusters and optimizing visibility.

- Imports map behavior and animation (25 Quake entity types), help
  messages, special effects (splashes and laser beams), interlevel jumps.

- Compresses output VRML file.

- Uses Windows interface for setting options.


Installation
============

Unpack the qpub archive into a directory and run qpub.exe.
This program requires msvcrt.dll. This file should be placed in your
windows/system directory.

Recommended VRML browsers are:
- Cosmo Player (http://cosmo.sgi.com/products/player)
- Babylon VRML viewer (http://www.paragraph.ru/babylon)


Copyright and Distribution Permissions
======================================

Copyright © 1998 by Ildar Khairoutdinov.

QPublisher is freeware.  You may distribute this program freely and without
charge, as long as all the files in the zip archive are included and not
modified in any way.
Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or
implied warranty.

Quake is a trademark of id Software, Inc.
Portions of QPublisher are from the id Software utility source distribution,
'zlib' general purpose compression library (Copyright (C) 1995-1996
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler), JPEG library (Copyright (C) 1991-1994,
Thomas G. Lane) and GIF library (Written by Gershon Elber).