I am bad at textures.
By A_Guardian 2 years agoSo i'm making a new skin, and i have the model and the texture all sorted. But i cannot get the .smd to save the texture. I have all the file paths set right to the best of my knowledge, but i cannot get the texture to work. And i would like to have more to my collection then just a bunch of un-skinned models.
Any help would be appreciated.
And i am using Paint.net and Blender.
Is the name of the texture applied in blender the same as what your .vmt links to?
post your .vmt & filepaths n whatnot
Holy crud did my .vmt really just default back to this?
Vmt
"LightmappedGeneric" { "$basetexture" "/models/player/items/all_class/bowtie2.vtf" "$nolod" 1 }
qc
$cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Curtis\My Documents\Chris's\Models\Bowtie\medic\output" $modelname "player/items/medic/professorspeks.mdl" $model "body" "bowtie2.smd" $cdmaterials "/models/player/items/allclass/" $hboxset "default" $hbox 0 "bipspine3" -3.164 -3.239 -6.338 3.164 0.000 0.000 // Model uses material "bowtie2.vmt" $surfaceprop "default" $illumposition 3.169 0.000 1.620 $sequence ref "ref" fps 30.00
As i said, i am bad at textures.
Also, i cannot get blender to actually save the .smd with a texture. I can get the texture to apply with a .obj or .blend but not with a .smd.
I don't know what i am doing wrong, but it is rather annoying.
The texture the eventual '.mdl' file will be looking for is the same as the name you've given the object (not the mesh or the '.smd'). Also, applying textures in blender is only for visual effect for use of making renders, it won't export with it.
I just learned this the hard way yesterday when hexing my models to figure out why the texture wasn't loading; though anyone's free to correct me on this one.
Posted by Devieus
The texture the eventual '.mdl' file will be looking for is the same as the name you've given the object (not the mesh or the '.smd'). Also, applying textures in blender is only for visual effect for use of making renders, it won't export with it.
I just learned this the hard way yesterday when hexing my models to figure out why the texture wasn't loading; though anyone's free to correct me on this one.
Yeah, i know that much. I'm just really bad at this so far. still working on getting the texture to stick to anything other than a .obj/.blend
Posted by A_Guardian
Posted by Devieus
The texture the eventual '.mdl' file will be looking for is the same as the name you've given the object (not the mesh or the '.smd'). Also, applying textures in blender is only for visual effect for use of making renders, it won't export with it.
I just learned this the hard way yesterday when hexing my models to figure out why the texture wasn't loading; though anyone's free to correct me on this one.
Yeah, i know that much. I'm just really bad at this so far. still working on getting the texture to stick to anything other than a .obj/.blend
Why do you want textures on a '.smd' file anyway, in the source engine that crap is handled by the '.qc'+'.vmt' anyway.
Posted by Devieus
Posted by A_Guardian
Posted by Devieus
The texture the eventual '.mdl' file will be looking for is the same as the name you've given the object (not the mesh or the '.smd'). Also, applying textures in blender is only for visual effect for use of making renders, it won't export with it.
I just learned this the hard way yesterday when hexing my models to figure out why the texture wasn't loading; though anyone's free to correct me on this one.
Yeah, i know that much. I'm just really bad at this so far. still working on getting the texture to stick to anything other than a .obj/.blend
Why do you want textures on a '.smd' file anyway, in the source engine that crap is handled by the '.qc'+'.vmt' anyway.
The model itself needs a texture. Which can be checked by opening the .smd with n++. I dont get the texture at all. Which is most likely why i cannot get a texture to work. Other then that, i think all the filepaths are all good.
Just a note but the line:
// Model uses material "bowtie2.vmt"
Doesn't actually set the texture being used. It's just an FYI comment for people as shown by the // in front of it.
Felt that needed to be said,
Posted by Logan Dougall
Just a note but the line:
// Model uses material "bowtie2.vmt"Doesn't actually set the texture being used. It's just an FYI comment for people as shown by the // in front of it.
Felt that needed to be said,
Yep. Its the whole {}/$ thing that denotes used code. But might as well change that while i'm at it.
Posted by A_Guardian
The model itself needs a texture.
True, but the '.smd' file isn't the model, the '.mdl' file is the model, which is what a '.smd' compiles into. As mentioned here, the '.smd' file contains no information on textures, only meshes, bones, and animations (and some other stuff).
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