Actually, I looked back through the decompiles from Crowbar v0.34, at least, and found the same "along stiffness" and "along_dampening" commands, even without the "allow_length_flex".

Does anyone know if any of these parameters are present in the actual source files?

This also adds "along_stiffness 100" and "along_damping 0" which, according to VDC is "only used if "allow_length_flex" is specified for this bone".

Is this also a side effect of "allow_length_flex" or were they present before?

1. Use GCFSCape to extract the lastest version (if I'm not mistaken) of the male L4D1 survivor model and animation files from
   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2_dlc2\pak01_dir.vpk"
   
   
2. Use Crowbar v0.42 to decompile "anim_biker.mdl", using default options and "apply right hand fix".
   
   
3. Recompile "anim_biker.qc" without any changes to the files.

A successful recompile...


While compiling the long list of animations for the model, crowbar eventually recieves an error message and fails to complete:



Windows 10

When setting up crowbar compiler & model viewer game files path (dropdown tab/"set up games"), it defaults all games to the mod author's personal harddrive and user folder directory (whoops, lol): instead of the default steam game install directory:

Windows 10

I've been meaning to decypher the whole mess. Maybe Zeq can study them also and help in learning to decompile animations down the road.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+open+a+7z+file

(It's a 7zip file, download and use 7zip to open it. It's one of the best archivers, and it's free without a trial.)

Originally posted by BenJamin':

I'm having the same problem.

I had to tediously add "end" to the last line of each of these files, then finally I was met with another "overflowed g_numsources" error for having too many SMD's from the QC file. But this was a simple decompile/recompile of the default Bill model from l4d2...

Actually, this doesn't quite solve the problem. Even though it lets you finish compiling, if you decompiled the anims using crowbar, the anims will still be broken. You'll have to use studiocompiler or a similar tool instead.

Originally posted by GreenPeas:

I'm doing the same job, but as basis I'm using NoaJM fixes.
Unfortunately, I'm recently starting to learn about modelling, so sometimes I can't understand how working some functions. ;)

I'm in the same boat, to be honest. I'm still trying to reverse engineer what others have done, and trying to stitch all of them together without compatibility errors. There are many bugs with the survivor's animations and animations happen to be my biggest road block at the moment. :/

NoaJM's anim fixes seem to be the best anyone has put together so far. Unfortunately, his work seems to be abandoned for now, and I think our best bet is to get into contact with him directly, if possible.

Originally posted by ZooL:

I personally had to export them using Sourcefilmmaker, at least it works but some frames are missing sometimes. You need to do them one by one though.

Unfortunately that might be the only option at the moment, but thanks for your help. :)

I'm having the same problem.

I had to tediously add "end" to the last line of each of these files, then finally I was met with another "overflowed g_numsources" error for having too many SMD's from the QC file. But this was a simple decompile/recompile of the default Bill model from l4d2...

This somehow works. Thank you!