Heya, new to the tool and looking for some advice.

I've been working on a weapon and I want to export it to source, but I've come across what may be a problem on animating the view-model. When I export the animation and look over the .SMD generated, I see that it is including bones I have hidden and would not like to be seen while continuing to work on the weapon.

Some background: I made an IK rig for Garry's Mod's "citizen hands c-model" to make animating the weapon's client view much easier. I created several helper bones in order to not override any original bones, I renamed them, I added them to a seperate armature/bone layer, I parented them to the original skeleton structure, and I finally hid the IK rig's layers when exporting the animation; however, in the .SMD I still see lines such as " 3 "IK_Hand_R" -1 ".

I want to keep my bone count low and also clean any unnecessary clutter, so it would be helpful to know if it's impossible to completely mask these bones from the .SMD, if I need to restructure my armature, or if it's possible through some general settings - or if I'm just jumping the gun and this is something simple I can fix in the .qc.