I was told to avoid vertex animations because they are too resource intensive. Is there no way to get the animation working right keeping the armature modifier? It was animating in hammer/model viewer, just not correctly...

Thanks for the help I really appreciate it!

So when I apply the armature modifier I lose the animation. Do I have to export each each state of the animation then blend them together in the qc file or something like that?

What I'm trying to do is recreate this animation I did http://i.imgur.com/PAp0ItC.gifv . I only found out after that you cant use scaling to animate in the source engine apparently.

Originally posted by Artfunkel:

Or just upload your blend file. :)

Sure.

The ring:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsePER3tDBgyuFiCOPVmxYMpeoFp

Test cube:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsePER3tDBgyuFk-N8rsRRsFGaiM

The ring just has a simple animation where it widens a bit. For the cube I just moved a single vertex.

Originally posted by xDShot™:

So the problem is that vertex on the end is being still? Maybe you forgot to assign it to desired bone.

No I just stuck it out there as a test, it animates. It looks like the entire thing is getting twisted. Also you can see that the ring isnt nearly as thick as it should be. Its very odd....

All the vertices are animating, but it gets twisted and the vertices dont animate as far as they should.

Hi, I'm having a problem where animated models don't come out right. I'm using bones to translate vertex groups.

http://i.imgur.com/yNL3HMg.jpg

The above shows the end of an animation in the half life model viewer on the left, and what it should be on the right. I also tried animating a single vertex (again with a bone) of a cube, and it also turned out a little morphed.

Wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue before. I'm not very experienced with source engine or blender so I was hoping it's a simple mistake.

I'm using Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer to compile the models, and 2.7.1 for the export tools.

Thanks!