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Shilo wrote:Well that all over the screen problem, I had that before , when you move it gets worse right?

Did you remember to do the number changing in the anim smd's from that fpsbanana weapons tut? I believe it was anim_cancel.smd and cancel.smd which you open with notepad or something? That is how it is supposed to be fixed if I recall correctly.

Thank you <3

okay, back with another problem. i havent been trying much lately but i decided to try out xsi mod tool as i installed it a while ago but never ended up using it. so i imported a the reference_wrinkle model and exported it then when i view it in model viewer, and ingame, the model is all screwed up. i can post a pic now because i was just about to shut my pc off and i dont know how to describe it but it looks as though random vertices were moved all over the place.

i have no idea what to do. i would prefer not to have to get trials because then i would only have # of days to create custom models. thanks again

ya, i made sure to follow their instructions for exporting and i get the messed up models. when i export without unchecking remove unused bones it fails to compile.

for some reason the screenshot got cut off but you can still see what i mean.

im not sure being that im using an unfamiliar modeling program but i think in xsi the rig is already attached.

in model viewer all the bones are where they should be.

so its either me having no clue how to rig the model or something else.

lol, thats the problem. i dont know how to move the bones. i dont think xsi has bones so im not sure how to go about doing so.

i imported l4d player model, then immediatly exported it and it wouldnt work. so im guessing there is something i have to do to make the ValveBiped (skeleton?) object connect to the mesh. Thanks for the link ill check it out.

Hello!, I tried to replace a the hunter with a Michael- jackson-Thriller-style model but couldn't make my mdldecompiler work so I got stuck in the process, if you'd want i can send you the model for you to get it in the game

Here a screenshot of my custom model

okay, ive gotten closer. i think its just the problems with weight maps now. when i import there is no rig that i can attach the mesh to, other than the rig its already attached to, but it doesnt have that rig set to the mesh and there is no way i can do that short of making a new rig. and that works fine except the weight maps are a little bit off so until i figure that out i think im stuck.

thanks for all your help

Shilo wrote:What do you mean you couldn't get your mdldecompiler to work?
There are already decompiled models linked in the tutorial thanks to samm5506.

ok that problem solved, however i still can't find my way in to getting it right...
I'll keep trying however if you want the model to give it a try let me know...

ok, look I have the model done and textured in lightwave, then I can put the mesh over the hunter's original skeleton in milkshape3d, (however I don't know how to link the rig to the mesh), from there I can export an smd, I can export the texture as a .vtf and generate the .vtm...but, after that I get kind of lost.
I know there are some smd plugins for max but,and I know how to add the skin modifier there, but I have max 2009 and the plugins doesn't work with it

Ok, I found an importer/exporter working with max2009, the thing now is with the qc file, your example is for changing a survivor, I am trying to change an infected, so is kind of messy be cause the strings are not the same...

Thanks for the tutorial, really helped. Although you have to change the name in the hex editor of the model you want to edit in 4 sepearte places. Incidentally, the _it is the skin that is used when the Boomer voms on you, so you can either do a duplicate of your original skin with charg all over it or make a new skin with something liek "IVE BEEN BARFED" written on it. Good work.

i get this when i run the model. I searched online but all they say is use the code to precache it. I have no idea what code i have to mess with.

thats weird programming if the fle were to mess up because it had the same first letter :[

Hey there!

Been trying to make some custom weapon models, to replace the same-old. Got as far as the .smd, and when I went to decompile the weapon files to get the .qc, mdldecompiler won't run -- says error on start up 00000005.

Any ideas? Sorry to bother, but I can't figure this out, and although the survivor mdls are available decompiled, the weapons are not...

Thanks in advance!