So I have followed this tutorial[forums.solidsurf.info] to make a surf ramp model. When I export as .smd I get the warning: 1536 faces did not have a material
or texture assigned. The tutorial calls to ignore warnings but when I load it up in hammer in the preview I see a notexture sheen and in game as well

I have succesfully imported a model to blender, however I can't sadly import VTF files to add textures to the model. A tutorial showcased it but the user was seemingly using an older build that had

mean by "assigning".


How much experience do you have with making models for the Source engine? [/quote]
Im just following a playermodel creation tutorial, so no, not much experience.

Doktor Haus' world model tutorial with Mr Funreal model porting tutorial and it ends up like this for the multiple tries I
wondering if I had to use the the idle animation file in blender to properly place the model? because that's a point not used in the tutorials.

Is that possible to Hex edit in some ways these models to get

Why is my model invisible? I don't even know how, why and what messed it up. I am following this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3AMb7vW74
Yet, they get arms and see the stuff, whilst I

this? I only find tutorials to use Kanji for Text. And yes, Asian languange pack for windows is installed.

the zip is called io_scene_valvesource instead of the io_smd_tools python script file I see in this tutorial: HellJumper's Blender 2.5 Modeling
Tutorial for TF2
however, I used this vid to actually try to install blender source tools
SFM - Installing Blender Source Tools(2.74)

the normals section of the object data panel fixed the problem. Thanks Keepon. I'll make sure to include that tidbit in my tutorial.

even the basic layout, same in eeve and cycles viewport.

Im using latest version of blender, i saw a youtube tutorial that used blender 3.6 lts so I tried it too but same problem. I'm importing the map

can't exist outside the project directory, etc.
Is there a good tutorial for how to manage and strucute a Source Engine project available somewhere?