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are they shrunk in the crowbar preview as well?

@@rewindcat7927 Actually, i messed around with the size in blender, and now the model is bigger than the collision model and all the parts are separated

@@froxdoggaming3385 Hm .. you parented and weight painted your model do the skeleton yeh?

@@rewindcat7927 I didn't do any weight painting, i manually selected the vertices and assigned them to the bones myself. idk if that's important but in pose mode it all worked just fine

@ gotcha. Hm that’s a weird one. With valve stuff, the proportions are critical. If they do not match the humanoid size it breaks 😵‍💫

also how the hell do i fix "share same model paths" i need help bruh

OOGA BOOGA I HAVE FIXED IT AFTER BACKHAND SLAPPING THE STUFF RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING IT

maybe the gmod playermodel was the friends we made along the way

@@Supervigy_Reacts I am praying for a great Blender auto weight-paint plugin .. some day soon I am sure 🙏🙏🙏

@@rewindcat7927 there already a built in one

@@Supervigy_Reacts there is the auto weight paint but it’s kinda crap.

@@yomikdez8524 those should have been generated by crowbar when you pressed “compile” the output directory may have been set incorrectly - check if it is "Subfolder (of .qc input)"

@@rewindcat7927 got it, trying it later

@@rewindcat7927 nevermind i found it

now the texture is just tweaking out, it doesnt look like the texture that i expected

@@yomikdez8524 does it match the texture in blender?

ill try messing around

wait i dont have hl2.exe in my common file in executable in the set up games tab

wait nvm i found whats wrong, my garrysmod is in F: instead of C: , dunno why, might fix it

i fixed it now

@@yomikdez8524 you are hackerman ✊ GG

Sorry I missed this message before. Textures involves using the UV editor. If you already have the textures and they are in the wrong place, try unwrapping the model (with smart UV project), and see how the textures fit. With any luck you only have to move the vertices around a little bit to make it fit? Good luck!

I’ve never tried it 🤔 if it complies in Crowbar, then I guess it would be fine? Other option would be to make a 1pixel player model - practically invisible 😂 I think there are invisible PMs in the workshop too?

It kinda works :P Btw is it possible to use multiple materials? (I don't want to make the model single colour.)

@@12jn00gb yes, it requires a lot of squinting at text files, getting all the directories correct. Most ppl get all the materials onto one image. This is called 'baking' in Blender.

Nvm I just did it somehow :D

@@12jn00gb time to make a tutorial 💪

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Not sure what you mean .. are you asking how to select the vertices on the ankle? Or how to make them red (giving them full weight)? Select them with the circle select tool - make sure vertex mode is on at the top left near the mode select menu, there is a little button that looks like a dot. To give the vertices full weight for the selected bone (and make them red) on the right side of the screen in the area with all the vertex groups, click “assign” and set the slider to 1.

This guy called Royal Skies LLC has fantastic videos about weight painting (super concise, they’re perfect) th-cam.com/video/uWuE8Gnhuy4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fFloX_tjYBC2SWIN

Yeh pretty important. If your player model has no moving parts (like a nextbot?) you could get away next to no weight painting.

The half life male?

Check the link in the description, that should take you to the full tutorial and all the files should be linked there.

Double and then triple check the paths in the text files. Source is extremely picky about this. Have a peek at the full tutorial linked in the description.

@@rewindcat7927 I fixed it lmfaoo. The issue was that I forgot to make a new material and call it "sm". Thanks for the help though.

@@Domino_Domestic cool cool. Congrats. This stuff is not easy 🤦‍♂️

Source has a bunch of animations that are kind of baked in to its models. In the HLMV (half life model viewer) do the anims work? Also check the full tutorial linked in the description.

😂

in the link in description you can go to the full tutorial I made on steam. if you can't find what you need there, let me know

The qc file? If you go to the full tutorial linked in description, it’s much easier to follow. All links are there too.

Short answer: you can’t adjust the proportions of the armature. Long answer: you can with “the proportion trick” which I have tried to make work a few times with no success. But it’s possible, people do it. Big brain ppl 🧠 look up that zeq maccaw guy on steam he has a tutorial. And good luck 🙏

@@rewindcat7927 thanks! i'll look into and see if I can get it working. if not, i'll just fix the proportions since having a taller model is better than a warped one.

@@goldfishglory all of my garrys mod pm's are oddly squished in the shoulder area because I don't know how to do that proportion thing. One day I'll figure it out! Hopefully you get there first 👍

Have a peek at the link in the description, and good luck with this!

You can import what model you like into blender. Then adjust it to the skeleton, then weight paint. Be very careful with file names and folder structure.

@@rewindcat7927 How ?

@@sak-superagentkaboom5968 instead of making a stick man (like the tutorial), import another model and weight paint it.

This stuff is soooooo hard. Can’t beat yourself up. This stuff is also overly complicated imo. Have a peek at the full turorial linked in desc. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions 👌

BTW I love this video thank you so much for making it

I have tried just renaming all of the files with SM but it didn't work. It's fine with me if I have to change some code but I just want to know what to use and how to actually change anything. Sorry if this is a bit much to ask for

@@neskalawesome1664 the naming/directory thing is extremely difficult to get right, tbh one of the most frustrating things about making source stuff 😐 have a peek at the tutorial linked in description? Goes way more into detail.

​@@rewindcat7927 I figured it out from a reply you made to another comment All I had to do was use the notepad to change the parts in the "please compile this crowbar" file that say sm to a different name I chose then rename all other files and go into the two other things I needed notepad++ for and change the sm in those too

@@neskalawesome1664 excellent! Well done 👌

Have a peek at the link in the description? It goes way more into detail for each step.

Yeh, you can import anything and rig it to the skeleton.

But then the million dollar question is... how do I import it?

@@noobmuffin24p92 how to import the fbx into blender?

Yep

yep that will happen .. a LOT 😭 does the model appear in hlmv? Have a peek at the tutorial linked in the description -It goes into more detail.

Sorry for the late reply. For that stuff, start at the valve developer community wiki. Good luck

Thanks, it’s a so-so tutorial imo 🤷‍♀️ did you check the link in the description?

This is ultra tricky stuff to get right :/ have a peek at the link in the description? It goes into way more depth.

@@rewindcat7927 yeah i did, might look at it again though

First guess is you need to install Blender Source Tools. Check the tutorial linked in the description. It is the video but way more in depth. Good luck!

Hm .. that will happen 😭 this stuff is really tricky. There are a few ways this can happen. It often comes down to a typo, misplaced “/“ or something like that. Have a peek at the tutorial linked in the description?

If you are 100% sure that is a valid directory (?), I do not know. Are either of these links helpful? steamcommunity.com/groups/BlenderSourceTools/discussions/1/3269059787443574173/ www.reddit.com/r/SourceEngine/comments/tyfxhj/why_is_engine_path_flagged_as_red_in_blender/?

@@rewindcat7927 in Garry's Mod bin has studiomdl.exe but still flagged as red

@@lowshim did you see the 2nd link (above)? The Reddit one? Does that apply to your situation?

@@rewindcat7927 nope

@@lowshim if it’s not allowing you to export the SMD file, consider contacting the Blender Source Tools creator? Might be a bug?

This is a big question and highlights a weakness in my tutorial. Gmod will get confused if you use the same directories twice (ie with everything named ‘sm’) Make system of subdirectories (start by using your user name?) and have the .qc file align with them. It will likely require a bit of trial and error 🤷‍♀️

Textures is the number 1 problem of all time with Source/Gmod stuff. Sorry, I lied. It’s number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Double-check your file names, directory structure, slashes etc. also have a peek at the Steam tutorial linked in the description. There’s someone in the comments right now with the same issue, and the uploaded their model for me to look at. Gonna do that tomorrow latest.

Hm I haven’t tried that but I’d say yes. Ragdoll is basically the bones without any animation telling the bones where to go.

This is something I’ve spent a ton of time on and have yet to figure out :/ Question: what kind of custom animations are you looking for?

Hang in there. Gmod player model making is freaking complicated 🫤 took me a year to figure it out. You went to the tutorial linked in the desc yeh? Way easier to follow. As for the missing file, my first thought is maybe it got deleted by accident? Redownload the zip file?

@@rewindcat7927 I redownloaded the ZIP file but now there's a new problem. Basically it won't export no matter what which Id o NOT understand. Something about "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'type' and I don't understand because BEFORE I COULD export the model but there was no QC. Now I just can't export it... because!

Full error message: Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\(me)\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.2\scripts\addons\io_scene_valvesource\export_smd.py", line 218, in execute else: self.exportId(context, collection) File "C:\Users\(me)\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.2\scripts\addons\io_scene_valvesource\export_smd.py", line 351, in exportId bake = self.bakeObj(ob) File "C:\Users\(me)\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.2\scripts\addons\io_scene_valvesource\export_smd.py", line 778, in bakeObj if con.type in ['CHILD_OF','COPY_TRANSFORMS'] and con.target.type == 'ARMATURE' and con.subtarget: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'type'

@@omegasynth2775 This looks like a problem with the Blende Source Tools plugin. There is something in the mesh (or material/texture) that it cannot export. My first guess is there is something that Source doesn’t understand, something newer (Source is very old)? Just a guess. If you like I can take a look at it? Send me a link?

@@rewindcat7927 I mean, if the problem is the texture I think I can just strip the textures down to basic materials- I am using image textures made by myself to dress the model after all... Imma try that, thanks

Have a peek at the link in the description, that goes to the steam page with step-by-step instructions 👌

Have a look at the tutorial linked in the description, it explains everything in the video. First guess though: do you have Blender Source tools installed?

@@rewindcat7927 i think i have it.

@@rewindcat7927 yes i have the zip file.

@@Benkkullama did you install it?

@@rewindcat7927 yees and i got it working. but i have to ask. what happens if u dont make any textures?

If you want to cosmetically change to face, it’s not toooooo difficult (I have a tutorial on my steam page, check link in description) but a new model of head gets into Blender territory afaik.

@@rewindcat7927 i see, thanks for the help.

Have a peek at the tutorial I made linked in the description.. it goes into more detail and with any luck you’ll get it. Missing textures is by far the #1 most frustrating thing about working with gmod/source. More frustratingly, usually the problem is a syntax error. 😭

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1528003376

steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/999178043076677920/D56A79311A7328C2EEE0BD4CF3C6CB53AD183160/

@@rewindcat7927 Even after reading and copying the vmt and changing the paths and names it still doesn't show up with textures in the viewer. I guess the textures really are a pain💀

@@Sylvarvar oh gosh. Yeh. Do you want to upload your model to the workshop? I can take a look at it.

Ah yes the purple and black textures. There really ought to be an achievement for that. Usually the missing textures happens because of a typo. Source is ********very********* picky about how you type things in your .qc file, and your .vmt file. Have a look a the tutorial linked in the description, more details there might be helpful. Congrats on getting the model in though, that is hard enough.

I like ur channel btw!

@@rewindcat7927 i have vtfeditor, can i just choose the options that was in the video in notepad++?

ok i edited just like urs, just changed the texture path, and its not working

@@koolaidinpepsi Are the images named “sm”?

My first guess is something happened to the folder selected in Crowbar’s publish? If you haven’t already, have a look at the link in the description, it goes into more detail.

@@rewindcat7927 I already found the problem, but now I get a new one. The model does not appear in the Custom Player

@@facundextabs Check the autorun lua file, make sure there isn’t a typo somewhere in there.

Thanks I give you sub ✅

Is it A-Posing in gmod? And doing nothing else? Have a peek at the tutorial linked in the description. See if you missed a step, possibly in Blender Source Export.