Nevermind.

I found a pdf that give step by step on how to do so.  It's way more extensive process than I remember it being years ago when I did this.

 

As this has been over 3 years since I did anything in Quake-3, I could be wrong (I am at the office). But your best bet is to check for threads talking about models and textures.

I assume you are not using any Quake-3 MOD, just the Quake-3 game out of the box.

Models goes into ...\baseq3\models\mapobjects\objectname\objectname.md3

Textures go into ...\baseq3\models\mapobjects\objectname\objectname.jpg or .tga but .jpg is taken by default if both there

idealy, you should have a shader in ...\baseq3\scripts\objectname.sh
with that shader, have objectname added in the ...\baseq3\scripts\shaderlist.txt  (not sure on the exact name of the file)
the shader indicates the textures being used on the object, pointing to the actual texture files and having possible added features/effects. If the textures or shader files are not found, the object will be there but invisible.

lastly, be sure to envelope your objects with other objects (as a skin if you like) and apply a clip texture on it. This will tell the engine what part of the object are not walkthrough (that's why the whole thing has to be envelopped with clip brushes)

You must first export your model into an MD3, then with a misc_model entity in your map, point it to your model. You should then see it in your map editor and then compile it.

Thanks, I finally managed to get the tempest level that comes with the plugin to load in Quake.

However, I brought in an office chair I had modeled, imported it into Gmax as a 3DS file, and although the game did load, I never could get the chair to load.  No errors were given.

In fact, any file I model in 3D Studio Max and import as a 3DS file into Gmax doesn't appear in Quake when I load the mod up.

Oh and yah I figured out how to use Q2Map to convert the map to bsp.  Thanks

But thanks again for your help.