Originally posted by xDShot™ (on vacation):

Just select only reference mesh in object mode and expot it.

Thanks, this worked perfectly. My method explained above worked for me twice for other viewmodels, but perhaps I did something different with this one.

Hey everyone, I've recently been working on viewmodels for Garry's Mod that have a reference.smd file, and animations.
I'm looking for help with exporting my reference.smd file, as Blender always tries to "Export Selected Objects". However, I want to only export one file, the reference pose.

Before I try exporting the reference.smd file, I used the Add Bone Constraint to make the root bone of my weapon target the ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Hand. Next, I select the bones of the citizen arms in Object Mode,which also selects all the bones in my weapon model. Then I select the weapons model. Finally, I head over to the Scene Tab, scroll down to Source Engine Export section, and click the Export button. This brings up a little window asking if I want to export Selected objects (2 files). Obviously, I want to export all the bones (including the weapon bones), and only the mesh of the weapon, all as one reference.smd file. Here is a screenshot if you would like to see exactly what I mean:
https://s22.postimg.io/6losmnzdd/d19c33abc436910ca0a302c07ee2c75f.png

Even when I decide to go through with the 2 file export, I just get .smd 's that I can't use.

If you have any questions with needing me to give you a little bit more information with this issue to give you a better understanding of what I've done up to this point.

Also, please note that I did search around for a few hours looking to see if anybody had a problem similar to mine, but couldn't find anything here on the discussions, or on Google.


Thanks in advance

Originally posted by Vintage:

Update to Blender 2.71.

Thanks for the help Vintage, it works now.

Originally posted by Vintage:

Update to Blender 2.71.

Okay, thank you for the fast reply! I will try updating Blender now.

Hey every one, I have been having an error when trying to export my reference.smd for a viewmodel I am working on. Sorry if somebody else has posted something on this, but I have looked around all over the internet and haven't had any luck so far. But back to Blender, I am trying to export the mesh with the bones in object mode, but when I setup the directory and click export to SMD, I get a error. Here is a screenshot
http://puu.sh/bcMNg/e5f7c7d0fe.png
Help would be much appreciated!