Before making a Synergy Playermodel, you will need to download these programs:


Notepad++ [notepad-plus-plus.org] for editing one of the files.
Crowbar for decompiling the model (For this guide, i will be using version 0.19 but you can use the current version too).

Before we modify our model to work in Synergy, we must first set up our mod so that our playermodel will appear in the game.

Go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Synergy\synergy\custom
Once you're there, make a folder and name it anything, for this guide, i just named it "playermodel"















Now that you named your mod, make a folder inside your mod folder called "models" then make a folder inside that folder called "player" and then inside of that folder, make two folders called "rebel" and "normal".

To make the model into a Synergy playermodel, we must first decompile the model so we can edit it.


For this guide, i will be using the Metro-Cop model from Half-Life 2.


Open Crowbar and it should look like this:







Make sure everything that is checked on the picture is checked and everything that is unchecked is unchecked.





To decompile your model, click on the browse button on the top right side of the corner and go the location if the model file of your model (which is called a mdl file) and double select it. Once it's selected, click on the button that says "Decompile Folder and All Subfolders of MDL File" and it should start decompiling the file (It should say "...Decompiling finished" once it's done). When it is finished, a new folder should appear in the location of your model file named "decompiled 0.19" that contains all of the decompiled files and folders.

In the "decompiled 0.19" folder, you should see a QC file, this is the only file we have to edit (Make sure you don't change any of the file names).


To edit the file, right click it and click "Edit with Notepad++", you should see something like this:







Don't panic, we only need to edit two things.









First things first, we need to edit the name of the MDL file at the top, change the name to "male_0X.mdl" or "female_0X.mdl" (The X should be a number, open the game to see which model uses which number) For this guide, the Metro-Cop will replace male_02.

Note: If the MDL name says something like "folder_name/mdl_name.mdl", remove the folder part.









Now that we edited the name of the mdl file, scroll down until you see lines/a line like this:








The high highlighted lines are what you're looking for.







Replace those lines with these lines:


$includemodel "player/male_shared.mdl"
$includemodel "player/male_ss.mdl"
$includemodel "player/male_gestures.mdl"
$includemodel "player/male_postures.mdl"


But if you're using a female model, use these lines instead:


$includemodel "player/female_shared.mdl"
$includemodel "player/female_ss.mdl"
$includemodel "player/female_gestures.mdl"
$includemodel "player/female_postures.mdl"


And before you ask, yes, you will have to do this with Gmod Playermodels and Half-Life 2 playermodels too.

Now that we finished editing the QC file, we must now re-compile the model.


First, you must re-open Crowbar if you closed it and select the "Compiler" tab at the top, you should see this (You don't have to mess with the checked things if you don't want to):
















At the top, you see a list of games that says "Game to compile for" Make sure this is set to
Half-Life 2.


After you've set it to Half Life 2 if it wasn't already set to that, click on the browse button and go to the QC file that you have just edited and doubke click it, then click on the button that says
"Compile Folder and All Subfolders of QC File" and it should start compiling (It should say "...Compiling finished. Check above for any errors" when it's finished).


Once it's done compiling, click on the button that says "Go to Compiled Model File" and it should take you to the MDL file.

Now that we re-compiled your model, it's time to make it appear in the game!


Before putting your model in the addon, put the textures folder from the model your using in a folder called "materials" So your model doesn't end up with a bunch of missing textures.


Once you did that, go to
Your_mod_folder_name/models/player
And place your model file in both the normal folder and the rebel folder, this should make the playermodel appear as both a rebel and a citizen, you wont need to change anything in the QC file to make it appear as one or the other (If you have another model you want to use as the rebel/citizen version of your playermodel, then you may have to do this again but use that model instead).


Then just start your game and test it out.


Your model should replace the model you chose like mine:















Congratulations, you have just made a Playermodel for Synergy!

Don Ho: Creating Notepad++
ZeqMacaw: Creating Crowbar.
Helghast Loyalist: Making this guide.