You can choose the option for hats or whatever cosmetics in the beta importer. It automatically removes it for you.

You should be able to render, i dont know why you cant. And yes you can just uv unwrap the model, export the layout and use an alternative software like photoshop to paint.

Someone has done a weapon tutorial on youtube involving maya instead of blender. I havent watched the full tutorial, but I assume it involves Source SDK and not the beta importer.

Yes, It'll work.

Originally posted by ShinobiFreedan:

Hello Avagantamo,

I am the modeller who is working with Captaingoodstuff on the gun (he posted this yesterday on my behalf.) First of all, thank you for replying. The normals are perfectly consistent in blender, however, I tried normalizing the model to see what would happen. Most of the mesh behaved as it should have (normals that were inverted appeared inverted in - game) however, the glitched parts appeared just the same. I tried flipping only the glitched portions as well, however, this ended up with the same result. As a last resort, I appended the entire model and skeleton into a new blender file and exported that as its own SMD. Goodstuff put it in - game, and we had the exact same errors.

The glitched portions in - game show no abnormalities in blender, and the entire model is treated as a single mesh. Does appending and then joining a mesh to another with ctrl + j do something that I wasn't aware of? As far as I can tell, appending imports a mesh, and ctrl + j joins one mesh to another. Unfortunately, everything that was joined in this manner appears invisible in - game, despite looking fine in blender.

Any other suggestions?

~Freedan

If there were modifiers applied then it might cause problems. Could you upload your .blend?

In edit mode, select the whole mesh and press Ctrl+N. I suspect that the normals might be unconsistent; this will normalize the model. Its worth a try.

Originally posted by Grammar Wizzy DOTL:

nope, save it and open it in item test then the jigglebones will work.

Thats so lengthy.... lol

I made a model with a jigglybone, even edited the qc. The preview shows no errors, but there is no jiggle in the model preview. Is this a problem with the importer or have I done something wrong?

It looks good, but the texture on the pot seems a bit bland.