IIRC I learned you can't make new animations, only import and modify them. Is this true?

In any case, I have a Goldsrc model and it needs a single blank animation what's the best way to get one?

I do not, lol. I'll google material assigning, that sounds like the missing piece. ~Cheers!!

Originally posted by THECORP:

Could be a number of things. What are you using to decompile? I suspect something is going wrong with the UV's. What are you using to compile as well?

First, thanks for responding!!

I've tried a couple different ways to decompoile and compile with the same. I think the problem is the new polys don't have a texture attached to them? So to add stuff, for now, I've been COPYING polys that are of the same texture file UV and that works. It would be nice if I could ADD new polys or even new UVs and the MDLs still work in HL.

I've come a long way in getting things to work. However, I'm decompiling the Half-Life weapon models, and needing to add to the meshes, and texture the new faces. However, no matter what I do, they just come back black. I'm using textures already included in the model. They appear fine in blender, but after compiling them the're black.

Thanks for any help!

I found a work around until this can be fixed, see my post below. Essentially I have to export the meshes & animations separately because as soon as you export with an animation is messes up the bones. I can modify the animations from there separately.

While it's a work and a pain, I can work around the issue.

Originally posted by Artfunkel:

What you're seeing is the skeleton in its rest posiiton. You can reproduce that in Blender by selecting all bones in Pose mode and running the "Clear Post Transforms" operator.

Why the animations are messing up I don't yet know. Have you exported them too, or are you using the decompilled files?

Thanks for getting back, btw!

I've gotten the animations to work when I DO NOT export them in blender and just use the ones that came with my original decompile. If there are any animations exported with the model, the whole thing breaks like this whether I use an exported animation or an original. I'm working on seeing if any edits I do do anything if I export them.

In the end, I still need to edit the animation positions. They can be kept the same, they just need to be in a different physical place.


EDIT: Okay I can make edits to the animations and export them, but when I do the whole thing goes back to the Rest Position, and animates from there.

I wonder what would happen if I exported with the animations, then used the "non-corrupted" smds that were previously exported without animation. I'll try that next...

Originally posted by Artfunkel:

Can you upload your blend file please.

I'll upload a couple. Again, these are decompiled straight from the HL:Goldsrc distribution. I did not modify them at all beyond fixing the UVs. I really hope I'm just doing something stupid, heh. Again, these look great in blender, but at some point between blender and mdl it gets messed up. At this point I suspect it may be something wrong with the animations? I may be exporting them wrong.

Half-Life RPG[drive.google.com]
Half-Life 9mm[drive.google.com]

Currently working on:
'Nother update: I found a work around until this can be fixed, see my post below. Essentially I have to export the meshes & animations separately because as soon as you export with an animation is messes up the bones. I can modify the animations from there separately.


HUGE UPDATE: I've fixed the problem by removing all animations (deleting keyframes in dopesheet), and exporting without them. Then the animations that came with the decompile work as long as they weren't exported with blender. My NEW problem is that I need to edit the position of the bones, and I can't do that 'cause exporting the animations doesn't work. I'm really not apt at animating, and something is happening incorrectly, but I don't know what.

EDIT: Does it have something to do with what Artfunkel says in this thread? Something about how animations cannot be bound to objects in blender?


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Update:
Okay update: When I set the compiled mdl's animation frame to 0 the model is in the, I don't know what the word is, the original position, not the default 0 animation. It's easier to just upload pictures:

This is what the frame 0 is of compiled mdl[drive.google.com]
This is what the frame 0 is supposed to be[drive.google.com]

EDIT: I made some gifs of the animations. These illustrate the problem very well:
.mdl with incorrect position[drive.google.com]
correct positions in blender before export[drive.google.com]

The animations (which may be correct or not I cannot tell) continue from the wrong position 0, and I get the wonkey animations, and model in the wrong place as shown here.[drive.google.com]

And in case anyone thinks selecting the "Legacy rotation" would help, here's what I got when I did that[drive.google.com].


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Original post:
After hours of searching for solutions to my problems I find solutions that BST has already fixed. HOWEVER, now when I export from blender using the new Goldsrc button, the bone assignments are wrong. I think this is a great depiction of my troubles[drive.google.com].

I'm trying to just learn the basics here as I'm making the weapons for the Half-Life VR mod. In this case all I did was decompile the mdl that came with HL1 using crowbar. Then I imported it into blender, fixed the UVs, and exported it.

BTW, I get the exact same thing if I use the guide that SkyNinja gives in the developer wiki here and the exact same thing again if I use this tool [github.com] that supposed to do the same thing.

One more thing, I'd like to thank the devs of this tool, it's fucking awesome.

EDIT: With suXin's help I tried decompiling with the mdldec decomplier, and even with a new/different qc I got the same thing :(

EDIT2: Tried with the Hivehand, and I get the same mismatched bones.