@V3NUZ $ [] Heya, I dunno if you're still thinking about it 534 days later, but I found a Francis model on the Gmod workshop and thought of ya.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184406286
Reportedly there aren't any playermodels in this, but I thought I'd share.

Good to hear. Still don't know how you got the old incorrect version though.
Guess we could say you ended up . . . Bounding Through Time

Eyyyyyyyyyy it worked! :D I managed to get the fixed page textures for the closed book model! Thanks a bundle man, that was actually driving me NUTS. e.e; But I'm glad I got it working, now my project can resume.

Hmm. Yeah, that's better, I can actually see it now.
But also, that's wrong and shouldn't be happening--I updated the book model to not use the 'everymanual' texture anymore; I don't know how you got it to give you an outdated version.

Hm. Okay. Last checks here, for sanity:
1) Are you sure you're getting the download from that dA post? The download button is an icon of a down-pointing arrow over a flat line found under the bottom-right corner of the preview image. That's the only "canon" place to get the download, if you get it from anywhere else it wasn't my upload.
2) Completely delete the last instance of the download you got before downloading it again; gonna try to flush the old version out of the system. Make sure that the prognosticus.mdl file was last modified in August 21st 2020.

If neither of these fix the situation, report back.

sta sh/22drzw80r8eg

There, I got ridda the https thing too just in case. See if that'll work.

Huh. I didn't know Steam disliked Stash links.
Post it again, but with a space before the .sh in the link.

{LINK REMOVED}https://sta.sh/22drzw80r8eg

Alrighty, try this. I don't really use DeviantArt all that often, but see if this link helps.

Sorry, Steam disagreed with whatever site your 'better link' was from.
Better reel back to the Dropbox attempt.

{LINK REMOVED}https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4fp0a4m2soo62x8u1ppq1/h?rlkey=pwt4pcuozi5euj8lqwww2pht6&dl=0

Hang on better link.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4fp0a4m2soo62x8u1ppq1/h?rlkey=ryjzq5usd19mlbrv4d4d391cj&dl=0

Here ya go! o: I posted the screencaps on Dropbox, take a look and lemme know if there's a way to resolve this issue.

No; many-a-folk have used imgur in the past to show me things in the past. But I'm sure one could also finagle a way to post such a picture to Steam, deviantART Stash, Twitter, anything of the like. Around here, that is the most efficient way.

I can provide a screenshot o: Wanna take this in DMs?

I just checked back and it's still fine for me. Also the page-closed-texture is literally built into the main texture for the book, so it should be impossible for that to be missing but not the covers themselves.

Sorry, but unless you can provide a screenshot and some console error text from SFM, I can't help you.

I tried it as soon as I got your message. It still doesn't work.

What?? I swear I fixed that over there already, because someone mentioned it over there.
Did you try before the 17th of September earlier this year?

@Anachronistic ALLOS Yeah, I actually tried that, but for some reason the textures on the pages are still in that purple checkered "no-texture" look in the closed book model. Any way to fix that?

I have a direct download on deviantART that you can insert into SFM.
It is the same thing, just from another site. Conveniently just like here, it is also fixed over there.
https://www.deviantart.com/secminourthethird/art/Model-Dark-Light-Prognosticus-852665626

@Anachronistic ALLOS I don't suppose you have an SFM version of this? With the page textures fixed, that is?

LMAOO yeah, no luck. it seems i may be the only greasy lizard discord mod enjoyer on the planet

Hoo, good luck with that search, pally.
That's such a specific and unusual thing to be looking for that I'm not sure it'll ever exist without being specifically requested from someone capable.

ive been looking for a francis pm, but this will do for now

merlon~ im reading the light prognosticus! then you go into his house and hes not XD

My favorite books!

"A tale of love..."

@Toxin [] Oh! Sorry. Somehow I put the wrong texture on that part of the model by mistake. Should be fixed now.

@Dolan [] Well, good news; the original game this is from is already about overturning a prophecy, so Nintendo already did that for ya. As well, the Dark Prognosticus' prophecies only lead to ruin anyways, as the passage quoted in the description states, while the Light Prognosticus was written purely to counteract against the Dark one and as such its status as a book of prophecies is questionable.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2204581123

Uh oh! the pages are missing textures...

Wonderful; finally I have a copy of these books to burn. Prophecies are bullshit; nothing kills a story better than an Instruction Book to the characters' Destinies. spoils the shit out of the story in most cases...

I have a problem with this addon?

Awesome!

YAAAAAS!