Hi,

I've read previous discussions about this issue and haven't found a solution yet.

I have a super mario running animation which looks normal in blender, but looks screwed up in the mdl file after i compile the exported smd.

blender animation: https://makeagif.com/gif/mario2-gif-G-KXFI
valve mdl file after compiling the smd: https://makeagif.com/gif/mario1-gif-KTBMxO


The gifs are a bit bad quality, but you can see two things:
- the upper and lower arms in the mdl animation break apart and rotate about different points
-the knees/legs in the mdl bulge outwards left and right nstead of being straight forward like in blender.

I didn't want a continuously joined up mesh so i didn't do CTRL+J join mesh in blender (I didn't think it was necessary).


Thanks

Well I've worked it out:

Crowbar was searching for the studiomdl.exe and gameinfo.txt files in the Program Files (x86) rather than the Program Files, and my Program Files (x86) folder is virtually empty, save for an empty cstrike folder.

I directed it to search in the program files folder, where all my files are, and it worked.


By the way, I tried using crowbar 0.24 and it explicitly told me that it couldn't find the folder, which is what gave it away, whereas the 0.29 one said "compilation finished", so maybe newer versions should be more explicit about that particular issue? Just a thought.

It does say the directory where it is searching, but I didn't clock that it was the program files (x86) folder.


I don't know if this is because my CSS never installed correctly in the (x86) folder due to my fault, or something to do with my PC being 32 bit, but anyway. My CSS has worked fine (as far as I remember) without using the (x86) folder.

Well I tried disabling output folder option, I searched "myfirstmodel" in a few places and still couldn't find anything.


The compiling code is here:

Compiling with Crowbar 0.29.0.0: "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Source\cstrike\models\player\NewQC.qc" ...

Compiling ".\NewQC.qc" ...

... Compiling with Crowbar 0.29.0.0: "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Source\cstrike\models\player\NewQC.qc" finished.



NewQC.qc is the qc file i mentioned above.


I have a screen shot of my compile screen at imgur:
http://imgur.com/3CkbCbW . Hopefully its legible.




And the log file text document just says this:

// Created by Crowbar 0.29.0.0

Compiling ".\NewQC.qc" ...



Is GUIStudioMdl a bit less weird to use?




Thanks for your help.

Hi, can someone help me with this:

when i compile my qc file with crowbar, it says compilation of qc file is finished, in just 3 lines, without mentioning the model itself.

But no .mdl file is produced.



This is the qc file (I've tried this with a few different qc files)


$modelname "player\myfirstmodel.mdl"
$body mybody "player\Cube.smd"
$staticprop
$surfaceprop combine_metal
//$cdmaterials "models\props"

$sequence idle "player\Cube.smd"

$collisionmodel "player\Cube.smd" { $concave }



Does anyone know a reason this might be happening?