No.

I have downloaded and decompiled the Darth Vader model from the addon you linked. After various recompile tests, I managed to find the minimum amount of changes so it recompiles.

I had to comment-out or remove the following lines from the "darthvader.vrd" file: 163 - 181, 212 - 230
You can find the changed vrd file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8zS9qTrqHWa01xbVp0ejljSWM

My guess is that Crowbar decompiles those procedural bone lines incorrectly. I will be trying to fix the problem, but it might take me awhile. I hope for now the changes will allow you to continue with your modding without too much trouble.

EDIT: I have also moved the topic into the Bug Reports area, so I can better track it.

:)

Instead of block commenting, Crowbar will have a decompile option to include/exclude the DefineBone lines.

• Crowbar (Modding Tool) Guide (Learn how to use Crowbar from the developer, ZeqMacaw)
  
  
• A Complete Guide for Using Crowbar (Guide by Pte Jack)
  
  
• Crowbar (моддинг инструмент) Гайд (Гайд о том, как использовать инструмент Crowbar) (By MARK2580)
  
  
• Publish to Workshop via Crowbar (For Garry's Mod, but the principles are the same for any game. By ZeqMacaw)
  
  
• Workaround to Recompile Models that Have Problems Due to Delta Animations (By ZeqMacaw)
  
  
• SFM - Decompile a Valve Model, Edit and Send Back to SFM - Pt3a - Using a Crowbar (the new ver 0.27) (By Pte Jack)
  
  
• Decompiling the Survivor Model Files[sites.google.com] (Part of the Modding a Left 4 Dead 2 Survivor tutorial by ZeqMacaw)
  
  
• Simple Model Blender to SFM - Addendum - Compiling using Crowbar (Video tutorial by Pte Jack)
  
  
• Compiling Using Crowbar[sites.google.com] (Part of the Modding a Left 4 Dead 2 Survivor tutorial by ZeqMacaw)
  
  
• Practically any model to SFM via Blender (The Hard Way) Course - Introducing Blender Source Tools (By Pte Jack)
  
  
• Custom Melee Mod (3DS Max or Blender) (By Splinks)
  
  
• Using Crowbar to compile and decompile models (Video by Igor Lima)
  
  
• Tutorial: Porting GoldSource models to Source Engine using Crowbar for Dummies and Newbies. (By loKkdoKk)
  
  
• Custom Playermodels (Proportiontrick & Face Flex) (By MrFunreal)
  
  
• Ultra Simple custom Garry's Mod Player Model (By g9f605)

Crowbar Command-Line

• Crowbar-Command-Line[github.com] (A fork of the Crowbar source code designed to allow command line de-compiling of source engine models. By Fay)

Crowbar on Linux

• Crowbar X[github.com] (Modified Crowbar that only decompiles models, but works on Linux. Requires .Net Core 3.1.)

3D Modelling Tools and Source-Related Plugins

• Blender[www.blender.org]
  
  • Blender Source Tools
• 3ds Max[www.autodesk.com]
  
  • Wall Worm Model Tools[www.wallworm.com]
• Maya[www.autodesk.com]
  
  • MESA[puppet-master.net]

2D Editing Tools

• VTFEdit[nemesis.thewavelength.net]
  
• GIMP[www.gimp.org]
  
  • VTF Plugin[code.google.com]
• http://www.getpaint.net/
  
  • VTF Plugin[nemesis.thewavelength.net]

Text and Binary/Hex Editing Tools

• Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org]
  
  • Source-Related Syntax Highlighter Plugin

Packaging Tools

• 7-Zip[www.7-zip.org]
  
• GCFScape[nemesis.thewavelength.net]

Model Viewers

• Noesis[www.richwhitehouse.com]
  
• Crafty[nemesis.thewavelength.net]

Other (Older) Model Decompiler and Compiler Tools

• StudioCompiler[www.chaosincarnate.net]
  
• MDL Decompiler[www.chaosincarnate.net]
  
• GUI Studio MDL[www.wunderboy.org]

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I decompiled L4D2's "v_rifle.mdl" with Crowbar 0.24. All SMD files had real data in them without having to recompile and decompile again.

Your method is unnecessary and could not possibly add any anim data if there were none to begin with.

That's just silly. What model (file name) did you use as test of this method?

Added guide link to main page (group description) and to new list of Guides on the Download links page (forum topic).

Thanks, xDShot!

:)

That is very cool! Thanks for the info.

Please at least give us a brief explanation of how you got it working. You could write a tutorial about it in this forum or some other web site, and I can then link to it from the main page.

:)

Interesting idea. You are probably correct in thinking some people would not like this, but the capitalizing does seem like it would make the file easier to read. I'll put this idea on the planned features list.

:)

Simply comment-out or delete the line in the QC file that the error refers to.

:)