Well. I think that I'll throw a sub to you. Not just because of this thread though, but also that I find some potential in your vids. But yes. All the advice was pretty much given above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_9StG2WPU

Credits for the cat model go to Mattscreab. It's availible on workshop.

And please see my channel and other videos of mine :3

Originally posted by Kartoffel:

Could you share a link to a picture of this behavior?

Hello. I'm sorry for a really late reply. But unfortunately I haven't got any pictures anymore of this issue. Mainly because I removed the flexes that fixed the problem. But the problem is that when I make any flexes, it will have that bug again.

Have you got any experience or idea about what's happening to cause this bug appear?

It's in "Modelling Skinning and Rigging". The subject is about Flex bugs. I'm sorry for making this useless redirection thread but it's hard to get my thread noticed in any other way.

Hello!

I've got a model that I have made 3 shape keys on. The model on the whole acts perfectly in blender (yes, also the shape keys do). I've compiled the model to .mdl and tested it in SFM. However the flexes caused some severe bugs.

The first one is present when I move the flex sliders. The shape keyed parts do move as they should. Despite this, when a shape key is in it's max position the part of the texture "splits". I dont know how to exactly explain this but it seems that the flex moves a part of the model's surface away from it's original position but the texture that is in the shape keyed part is also staying in the flexes original position. It's like "cloning" the texture.

Another problem is that when I point a light at the model it starts having dark blotches all over the lighted area on the surface. They are mostly clearly geometrical shapes, triangles, pentagons and hexagons. They also flicker and change place when the camera is moved.

Please inform what could possibly be wrong if you know something about this.

Thanks.

That's most likely because you've animated the movement only at one single frame. Now understanding animation basics there must be a transition between minimum 2 frames to make anything move. In this case first select the whole model and add keyframes for the first frame. Then go a bit ahead in the timeline and then start moving the part you want to be animated to a different position :)

Get a MDL compiler that can compile your models from .smd to .mdl. Personally I use GUIstudioMDL. Well... about .dmx models... I haven't compiled them before but I think that dmx's should be compiled in the same way as well like the smd's.

One important note: When using GUIstudioMDL the program will ask you to define the SDK tools path for the source games. These are ep1 and OrangeBox SDK tolls paths' and need to be found in their respective directories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDRsVQP0V5Q

:P

SFM tends to corrupt direct video exports in both AVI and mp4. Though the corruptions are much worse with the AVIs. I'd recommend to create a folder that is particularly meant for the export and nothing else, then selecting image sequence export in png. Then compose these frames of the image sequence in your editor or frame compiler and render it into a video. If you have no editors that could squeeze each of the frames' durations into duration of 1 frame, then use VirtualDub.

Hello! Yesterday I imported a custom model that I made with blender to SFM. It was working just as it should have. Though when i spawned a light and pointed my model with that light, the model's surface suddenly started to show shady/dark blotches al over the illuminated areas. When I move or rotate the light or the model the "blotches" start flickering that makes the model look really ugly. When I went closer and took a look at the blotches I noticed that most of them looked pretty much like hexagons that would refer to something with the faces of the model.

Besides that. For some reason the model is flatshaded even if I set it smoothshaded in blender.

Any help or fix would be greatly apreciated!

Thanks.