For keeping the original animation file names, you will have to use the 'Place in "anims" subfolder' option. The naming scheme Crowbar uses is there to keep decompiled files for a model together and not overwriting other model's files when more than one model is decompiled. It is also done for consistency.

Oh. That means people should not link to that page, but still means the link to download it is valid.

Using the link from the group's description (group main page) should always lead to current version.

You should decompile an existing model to see how the QC file looks. You'll probably spot right away what the problem is. HINT: Your $sequence lines are missing something important.

I noticed the $ModelName command has a backward slash "\" at the start of the MDL file name, which usually means absolute path instead of relative. So, I tried a simple test to see if that slash causes the problem, and it does. Remove the first slash; the compiler does unexpected things when there is a slash or backward slash at the start of the file name.

In other words, to fix the issue you've been seeing, change from:
to this:

This gives me the idea that Crowbar can give a warning to the user that the $ModelName has a problematic slash at the start, when the user tries to compile the QC.

:)

Hmm. Are you still seeing the issue? I have not been able to get Crowbar to mess up as you described.

This was fixed with version 0.27.

Goal: Crowbar can decompile every known GoldSource and Source model version.
Goal: Crowbar has a convenient and useful interface for decompiling models.

To help with the above two goals, it's nice to compare with other MDL decompilers to make sure useful features are included and to make sure Crowbar is at least as convenient as other tools.

Please post any MDL decompilers you know about, along with links and related info, and I'll add to the list in this main post.

The numbers in brackets at the start of each tool's line are the model versions the tool can decompile.

• [6] Half-Life MDL v6 Viewer (includes decompiler) Version 0.3b BETA2 26-Feb-2013
  
  
• [10] Half-Life MDL Decompiler[www.wunderboy.org] Version 1.2 15-May-2003
  
  
• [44?] Source MDL Texture Info[www.wunderboy.org] Version 1.0 15-Dec-2004
  
  
• [44?] Crafty[nemesis.thewavelength.net] Version 1.0.2 07-Aug-2006
  
  
• [2531, 44, 48] MDLDecompiler[www.chaosincarnate.net] Version 0.5 18-Apr-2005 (Older versions available.)
  
  
• [2531, 44, 48] StudioCompiler[www.chaosincarnate.net] Version 0.4a 02-Feb-2011 (Older versions available.)

Yes, you seem to be missing quite a bit of basic info. SMD is one of the types of files you would get if you decompiled an MDL file. :P

I just looked up FragMotion here[www.fragmosoft.com], and you should be exporting to one of these three options: