Thanks CDR Hurricane, though your workaround didn't work for me, I appreciate it. I tried several variations of that approach, but nothing seemed to work.

Sure thing.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4yv6hyi6nipcsa/sg_reload_loop.smd?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sujbcg656tftpr4/c_double_barrel_reference.smd?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/odbt7sevl9pdo2a/sg_reload_loop.blend?dl=0

Thanks Freddie, just tried some other weapons. It looks like importing an animation followed by the model works if the model only contains one bone (weapon_bone). Then it is right where I'd expect it to be during the animation. No such luck for models with multiple bones, unfortunately. The weapon_bone seems to be in the correct spot, but the other bones are not.

I'm trying to import a c model and one of its animations. When I either import the model then the animation, or the animation then the model, the model breaks apart in an unexpected way. See screenshots below.

This certainly has something to do with the armature. When I import with Bone Append Mode set to Make New Armature, the model is fine. However, after importing, I'd like for the model to be posed where it is supposed to be in the animation. Is this possible? Creating a new armature won't accomplish it.

The SMDs I'm using were created by decompiling TF2's c_double_barrel.mdl (the Scattergun) and c_scout_animations.smd with Crowbar 0.24. I'm importing with BleST 2.5.2. Using different import settings produced different, but still unexpected, results. I'm unsure if this is a bug in the decompiler, the importer, or simply an issue that cannot be worked around.


First importing c_double_barrel_reference.smd
http://i.imgur.com/er6fOpu.png

Then importing sg_reload_loop.smd
http://i.imgur.com/UfPYkAi.png


First importing sg_reload_loop.smd
http://i.imgur.com/3kEVl4C.png

Then importing c_double_barrel_reference.smd
http://i.imgur.com/vweq1TG.png


Any ideas? Thanks for taking a look.