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I had that happen if there was something in the qc file that it didn't like or it couldn't find a file that it needed. Try using GUI Studio MDL because that should tell you where it's erroring out.

http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/guistudiomdl2.php

That is really odd.. does it do that in the model viewer as well?
Turn on the skeleton view for the animation that messes up and see what the wrist bones are doing, if they look fine, then it's something wrong with the rigging probably.

bloocobalt wrote:Oh, can you add me and go on steam?

I rarely use steam, only xfire, msn and aim.

Can you send me the mdl, vtx, phy and vvd so I can check it out?

Textures won't show up as the best quality in any of the viewports, you have to render to see it better.

As to the application of textures, if your model has separate pieces, then select only the ones you want. If you are talking about ones you exported from the game, they use multi/sub-object textures.

Open the textures window, where it says Standard, click that and choose Multi/Sub-Object, then set them as you want/need them. Apply the whole thing to your model and change the order of materials to suit how the textures are set up on the model.

You can find out that more easily by selecting the model, going to editable mesh/poly (whichever it is), go to the polygon selection, and scroll down till you find the material ID part. Put a number in the Select ID area and select so you can see what number is what part of the model. Part 2 uses texture 2 from the multi/sub-object list.

From what I can read off that, it gives you instructions on how to fix it.

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir
2. Run vconfig to specify which game you're working on.
3. Add -game <path> on the command line where <path> is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.

There is a thread on the issue here as well :
http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=335095

Try getting GUIStudioMDL from here : http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/guistudiomdl2.php
And try compiling using that instead. You need the manually set the game up in there so that might have a better chance to work for you.

When you start it up, in the area called "Target Mod or GameInfo Path", hit the Add button and browse to your l4d gameinfo.txt. SDK version should be set to Episode 1 I believe. Then just hit File, load your qc file and hopefully that will work. If it doesn't, check the output to see where it went wrong.

Well.. go and open up the gameinfo.txt with notepad and see what is in there. Maybe there is missing info in it. Put in on here and we will see.

yuv912 wrote:Hey
I'm always getting the "Unable to load model" error when decompiling.
Well I really don't have any idea how to fix that.

Maybe you guys have any any ideas. I did everything right as it's explained it the tutorial...

Hmm.. you have to make sure that you rename the vtx... are you doing this part?

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Make TWO copies of the vtx file and rename the endings to .dx90.vtx and .dx80.vtx (for example, survivor_namvet.dx90.vtx and survivor_namvet.dx80.vtx).

You need to have the vvd, mdl, phy, dx90.vtx and dx80.vtx files for the decompiler to be able to open the model.

If this still doesn't work, what version of the mdldecompiler to you have, are you modifying the mdl file as stated in my tutorial?

You need to use mdldecompiler v. 0.41 as 0.5 crashes mid-way each time.
http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/download.php?id=mdldecompiler.041.rar

Loading the model is not the same as decompiling it. Loading just means that it found all the files that it needed (I believe) but then when it accesses the files, they are in a slightly different format from what it was expecting, so it crashes. It works fine with 0.4.1 though.

You would have to rig it up to Zoey's skeleton and recompile it for L4D but yes, it would work.