HA! Thanks! Finally a solution! :D

I quick tried it and it worked! I'll make another vid after work and post it for those that are having the same trouble I was! Thanks a billion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ccn4vg5nI

Let me know if you need anything else.

When I export an animation (yes it is made with a bone(armature)) it doesn't keep the animation.

Yeah, still isn't working. I was told to move the facepunch thread. It has been nailed down to an issue with modeling rather than programming.

https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1572529

I am still trying new things like making a new blender project with a single cube and a single bone and exporting that to an smd and then importing it in and animating it.... no luck on that either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksr6JwkAiKk

Alright, yeah I have been working for over an hour trying to fix this. I got rid of that shape animation and started from scratch and just put a single bone in there and parenty the mesh to the bone and animated the bone by moving it up on the z axis a little ways and then exported. still not working.

I will make another video after work today to show exactly what i am doing. Maybe it would just be faster for someone to do this. Make an entity from scratch and show from beginning to end and list all their project files. cl_init, init, shared, the qc file

The object doesnt need textures, just export it as a blank set of objects that dont have materials. Just super basic. just make the animation move and maybe rotate so there is some obvious change to be seen.

That might be faster than trying to constantly correct me. I am OBVIOUSLY doing something wrong and just telling me how to do it isn't working. Please and thank you.

A guy on Facepunch has responded saying the these export tools don't allow normal animations... that all animations require bones. I am currently trying to setup a basic armature and then I'll retest.

Alright, here is the facepunch thread. I have videos and everything over what I've done and I'm trying to do.

https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1571969&p=52502092#post52502092

Here is the latest video from the thread showing from scratch exporting from blender and yadda yadda. The animation simply will not play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vowB02josSs&feature=youtu.be