How To: Model for Source in Blender

[HELLF0X15]

Would you have an updated code for this?

[Exzmo]

I wounder, is it really just luck and guessing how big will the model be in-game?

[MrSkywalker113]

I dont get the part between 6:39 to 7:10. What is he doing, what program is he in, and where do i save those files??

[Lynx4500]

This soooooo brain melting @_@

[WhispersSweet]

@Lynx4500 Blender is fricken screwed up DX

[firebad0]

i don't have a middle mouse, how do i freely orbit around the object without using the keypad?

[clownbabydiode1]

The damn website does not work

WTF

[Left4TeamFortress2]

i got lost on making the MDL file....

[RandomMajin]

This doesn't work. I installed it in to the scripts folder and it won't install the addon.

[Dvondrake292]

Slight update: I'll be redoing this tutorial soon using 2.5 and the new community plugin, along with a big series of tutorials about Blender its self and how to use it + different techniques if anyone's interested. Check back on my channel later once I get everything up and running. :)

[ekkkkkknoes]

@Dvondrake292 I love you. No homo. Subbed.

[KearoNasanam]

So, would this work for making custom skins for Source? Such as changing the clothing of TF2 Models?

[RoboTyphoon1403]

I can't follow your tutorial because I have version 2.5 of blender. Nothing on mine looks like yours at all, and I don't have half the options.......................­fffffffff

[Piedoom0]

@RoboTyphoon1403 Everything is doable, except blender 2.5 does not have the feature where you can connect 2 faces so easily.

[clownbabydiode1]

@RoboTyphoon1403

You can download older versions of blender off the site

[hec1234561]

Can you please help my models loads the vmt but not the vtfs

[hihosh1]

I don't get an option for static mesh, all I get is "export scene as configured" and "export plane.smd" please help.

[1996Antichrist1996]

would this be able to work for GTA SA. like making models for it?

[yamigosaya]

@1996Antichrist1996 No

[obsidialord]

@1996Antichrist1996 read the title AND desc.:

FOR SOURCE GAMES

[Hunter1428]

Cube just came out pink and black cubes

[BSBmovies]

Could you please make a tutorial for how to make models with animations into scource, im making a portal mod and i need a camera sceene. So im gonna do it like unbrokenjack and make a cube that follows the path the camera shall go, and then in hammer, parrent the camera to it. This tutorial was really helpful btw, much easier to make models now :D

[ThePolartop]

PLEASE tell me what version of blender your using the one im using has a differnt uv thing >_>

[hec1234561]

When I try to export it says IndexError: list index out of range

[Takato142]

The log didnt fit here, so I sent it to your account instead >_>

[Takato142]

I got my model to show up (FINALLY), but my texture(s) didnt work. I did everything the same as you did except I put all of my compiled model files into an addon folder. I have everything set up correctly for an addon;

Folders:

-Models

--Has no subdirectories and all of my model files

-Materials

--"models" subdirectory

--"malefor"(Name of my model) subdirectory

---"fc0d0081.vtf" and "fc0d0081.vmt"

And in blender, I set the material name to fc0d0081.png. Default texture in-game. Help?

[Dvondrake292]

@Takato142 Set it to malefor/fc0d0081.png in blender

[Takato142]

@Dvondrake292 Ive tried renaming it several times to several names (including the ones you listed) and the only thing that I have gotten out of it is making my model entirely invisible instead of the default texture. Also, I tried rigging the model (I eventually want it to be a ragdoll) and the SMD export script crashes everytime with this in the console: [--SEE NEXT COMMENT--]

[LightcycleChampion]

The bat file for me keeps saying "ERROR: bad version" and aborts the processing on my model. Any idea why?

[iamyou90]

For some reason when i try to "sew" the hole between shapes with the F key, it brings up sum weird script error... :(

[TheMagicalTouch]

can you make a tutorial for, how to make a weapon model mod for CSS??? like i would like to change the MP5 to a thompson sub-machine gun. but i dont know how.

[SGF08Y]

I understand most of it, but I'm confused as to what you do with the idle.smd file and the model.qc file.

[jimmhoo]

thanks, its a good and quick tutorial

[XmisterRawrX]

When I use your SMD Exporter Script, I get an error that says "list index out of range" in the Blender Console. Any ideas?

[nosapi5]

it doesn't works, 'cose is for cs 1.6 game

[theStef1983]

good thing you said that on 07:10, that you should name the material the same as the texture (and model I assume).

I had been looking for hours why it could never find the vmt when I open my model in the model viewer,

then after changing the material name and exporting&compiling again, it all worked.

[Hellstenen]

I've exported as smd, but the texture I've set up to use in blender isn't specified in the smd. So I get no textures. Do I have to like, save the textures somehow in blender so the model refers to this specific texture?

[0Blutrausch0]

Hey i made in the past some Prop_physics but it would be nice if you would make a tutourial how to rig and export an animated model. :)

[MrAware14]

At 6:40, Were do you paste the idle.smd?

[rayman1014]

i would like to move hats in a position for tf2 my plan is this

1.put the headrab mdl as the parasite hat (replace) DONE

surprisingly i can see the headcrab and it worked!! :D

only problem is the headcrab is on the floor face down toward the ground now i just wanna position it like on the chest or even the head of a player how can i do this?

[AlTheUnderdog]

@rayman1014 Now I don't know exactly how to fix it. But, I DO know that the origin for the TF2 hats are far away from the hat itself. To be more exact, it's way below it, as though the origin would align with the player's feet.

[BlueAuraWolf]

I had a lot of trouble following this tutorial, as everyone else clearly is.

After a long process of unnecessary struggling, I finally got to the end. But the .bat file isn't recognizing wherever I run it from. If I run it from my desktop, it says that it cannot find the specified location, and then proceeds to show the desktop path. If I run it from the folder with all my files, it gives a similar error with the correct path.

I did everything right. What's the problem?

[ChBoler]

Hate to throw another question in but...

my models is in game, but acting weird. I can shoot it and hit it, and it rolls around and such, but I can't pick it up, and when the round restarts it doesn't go back to the spot where it came from.

[ragemccloud]

When I go to export the model from Blender, I get an error in the Console that says something along the lines of "No module named struct"

Any idea?

References line 49 of smd_export.py

[Bleenderhead]

@ragemccloud Same here. Neither version of the script works.

[sonicnaruto12345]

okay so I simply saved the 2 other scripts from your website into separate notepad docs and i have all my info for my gun mod in one folder BUT-

When i go to export the hl2 smd option isn't there

I have the smd file opened with notepad and in the blender folder

answer plox

[sonicnaruto12345]

you had me up until about 6:51

can you explain what I'm supposed to do with the other 2 scripts on facepunch? cause I can't save them

[MrNoSpoone]

@SubjectX10 You don't have that texture then.

[synyster268]

When we save the idle.smd and material.qc, we have to give them the model name dont we? (In this case camera.smd and camera.qc)

[RedDotRampage]

wow thanks really helpful and the tut is well made but I never thought making models for the source engine would be so damn complex so i never could have done this myself

[slipperywhenwet5]

Never mind my last comment (i got mine to work)

but when I spawn it in game, it looks like the textures were rendered inside leaving the outside invisible (like I can see into it)

I recalculated the normals outside, but I may have rendered the UV map before i did that and never redid it. Could that be the problem? If not, do you have a fix?

[slipperywhenwet5]

When running the bat file it says im missing dlls and then someimes it says something in the dll is missing....

HALP PLEASE :D

[picaticatara]

Well anyway I can't export from blender whatis Python how do I make it work.

[SamuelLJacksonsFish]

Whenever I press Shift+N to make the normals face outward it screws them all up. Does that mean something's wrong with my model or something?

[WeatbixZ]

How do you change the size of your model?

[slipperywhenwet5]

@WeatbixZ hit s and move ur mouse. Holding in the middle button will let u morph it is a few directions.

[Pawspov]

very usefull for beginers

[tpotenberg]

After 6:40 you skipped ALOT of important steps in VTF edit.

[Dvondrake292]

@tpotenberg Like what? Obviously I didn't if everything works fine.

[Xenoloth]

@Dvondrake292 He's right, you skipped over a lot of things and it got confusing >.<

[Dvondrake292]

@Xenoloth I don't understand what I could have skipped over. The contents of all the files mentioned are linked in the description. You say that I skipped over "a lot of things" yet you don't tell me what exactly I skipped over. Because I didn't skip over anything.

The contents of all the files mentioned are linked in the description. It's literally just a matter of copying, pasting, and changing a couple names so things are referenced properly. What's not to understand?

[Xenoloth]

@Dvondrake292 Sorry, I didn't really specify much :p The thing that's confusing is that you switch from VTFEdit to Notepad++, but you make no mention of it, so the viewer doesn't what program you're in or where to write it, or save the files.. It's a little thing, but if someone puts the files in a wrong place or saves it incorrectly, the .bat file won't work. I had to do a lot of testing to finally get the item in. I don't want to seem ungrateful though, it was a really awesome tutorial! :3

[rayman1014]

@Dvondrake292 their right, you're skipping over "alot" of things

[hena89]

@Xenoloth

Interesting... Ready to tell that dvondrake missed things, but not ready to tell what things.

Why?

[Xenoloth]

@hena89 look down

[tpotenberg]

The text for the VTM in VTFEdit is unreadable in this video, even in the highest rez and fullscreen, can you please post it in here?

[Dvondrake292]

@tpotenberg It's in a link the description. Please pay more attention next time.

[solidwtf2]

2 things 1 How do i go about making the texture in gimp? (i'm not rich thus i can't afford photoshop) and 2 do i need all the pysics stuff for a tf2 weapon?

[TarousDT]

where do you save the idle.smd and the qc file etc, all you said to do was paste the idle.smd script into notepad and your done.

[DoomTay]

How do you execute 2:40? How do you select faces outside of the mesh currently selected in Edit mode? Does it have anything to do with the button you clicked before saying to select the face you want the mesh to attach to?

[WeatbixZ]

I don't know how to get the bat file to work its says "the system cannot find the path specified" btw i run windows 7 and there are to program files one of them is program files and program files (86x), yea...

[Blendhow]

Hi thanks for the tutorial,

I was just wondering whether you can use this method to get Blender objects in Visual Basic

Thankyou

[homsarshat]

My models are coming up with the same old annoying pink and black checkered texture, any ideas why?

[ZomgGuitarz1234]

@homsarshat textures aren't working.

[jiggysmackle]

Where does the .mdl come from? i only have an .smd!!!!!!!! HALP

[augustuen]

@jiggysmackle you have to run the .bat file

[WeatbixZ]

@jiggysmackle lol same i think its something to do with the bat file

[xXxAshersxXx]

I did it thanks :D is there anyway to make it appear in the menu instead of having to type prop physics create props/camera(dot)mdl? like e.g. when you press Q in gmod you get the spawn menu how can i make it appear in there? :) thanks in advance! your awesome!!!!

[xXxAshersxXx]

when you say now we can make the idle animation, where the hell are you pasting the code into? :S

[marq46]

my modles ar coming out pinck no mater what I do

evrything eals works

the phis modle and the static modle it is jus the texture that is plaiyng up plis help

[polertop]

What version of blender do you use?

[w0onka]

Awesome tut man, I think your my hero! But when I see my compiled model it has a pink and black texture, like it had no texture... I checked carefully my QC file but nothing is fishy.. Why is that?

[Gutzya]

Do i put everything in the same folder?

[warkey13]

if i whana have the model in a map i making in SDK where puting i the model?

[warkey13]

do the texture i put in blender can i see it when i play or but the model in the map?

[warkey13]

thanks i have shearct for this a long time thanks

[Indlvar]

Wow, Mate ,You Rock!! Blender reminds me of Hammer Vividly, Thanks for Being Awesome

[FreakFixtional]

You need to put more detail into this video.... 2/5

[Sakuukuli]

Is it possible to make different levels of detail for Source to use?

[noop5000]

I dont have a scripts folder where should I install it?

[TheJigen]

Very nice I enjoy this kind of stuff

[MrPatsurikuku]

I dont have the scripts folder...

[YOUnoobGER]

Can you explain more in detail how do you do that in 2:30, with polygons inside polygons?

Would be cool

[TarousDT]

You didn't say what to copy the idle.smd etc, into and what to save as and where to save them..

[dvlstx]

yea, I can't get my models to export at ALL if they have armatures attached :/

[TarousDT]

What about armatures???

[dvlstx]

Armatures are what Blender uses for Bones. I used the animating w/blender tutorial on the VDC

[TarousDT]

No I know what armatures are I'm not sure why you replied to me, that has nothing to do with what I said.

[dvlstx]

You mentioned idle.smd, which would be a bone animation. I figured I'd mention that the exporter throws me errors if I try to export something with a bone in it.

[stillalive0013]

cant wait to get this script downloaded, i hope it works. if it does then thanks for the help. good luck with your MOD (are you going to release it? :P) lol

[WeatbixZ]

So does this work with rigged models?

[ProductionSniper]

Has anyone had success with rigged models? When I compile all of my bones except the root bone are removed and I get hundreds of errors looking like this:

WARNING: too few bones/vert (0) : it has no bones!

[jamesusespivot]

when i press f to join the cylinder to the cube it comes up with auto make Fgon

and Clear Fgom, but not skin loops and edges

[jamesusespivot]

i've done model from scrathc and this time it says skins loops and edges...

but when i click it it gives me error

"Selection include verts that are part of more than one loop

[scapehead]

it free just search blender and download :)

[39Mick0tf2]

Yeah, I could really do with a proper import script. Or at least a decent explanation of what it is scaling by...

Also, by experience, source has been fine with verts and parts of faces sitting inside other polygons. not sure about whole faces though.

[ProductionSniper]

Are there any plans for an import script? The current one messes up the armatures and resizes weirdly.

I read on facepunch you have no idea how the current is working, but would you know how to create one from scratch?

[xXxAshersxXx]

I've put the plug in, into the scripts directory.. but it doesnt show in export? help please, thanks :)

[picaticatara]

Yea I've modeled before. It's very hard because I don't have XSI I'm no millionare and I used to make ragdolls in 3ds Max before my license expired. I remember assigning smoothing groups to separated meshes that were tied to specific bones. And is there a way to get the default Valve biped into blender!?

[picaticatara]

But what about phys models for ragdolls? Facial rigging!?

[Dvondrake292]

I have absolutely no idea how facial rigging works as I've never done it myself, however phys models for ragdolls are exactly the same as phys models for static objects. Why would they be different? Do you know how to model?

[picaticatara]

@Dvondrake292 Well in ragdolls aren't the QC scripts different?

[Dvondrake292]

@picaticatara Yes, however this script has nothing to do with QC files. You can make those yourself in Notepad, and they'll function the same regardless of what you're exporting from.

[ProductionSniper]

You have to rig the collision meshes to the armature.

facial rigging is done by exporting as vta I think.

There is a modification of this script, that supports this.

[picaticatara]

Can I make ragdolls and animated charachters with bones for Source in Blender? My 3ds Max trail expired and now I'm fucked.

[Dvondrake292]

Yes. Bones export properly by default, and you can export animations from the action editor.

[ProductionSniper]

How does the exporter recognize the end of an animation? Or do you give the end of a sequence in the qc file?

[Dvondrake292]

It uses the action editor, so just however long the selected animation is that's how many frames it'll export.

[marq46]

my textures dont work it is just pike

[ProductionSniper]

You need to type in the material name in 7:17 otherwise the exporter will give you an error. Also, in the qcfile you must give the path to the materials!

[SlurpBrigade]

All the props I make are really reallllly small even when I make them BIG in blender.I can use blender pretty good I think I just cant seem to make them bigger in Garrys Mod?

Help would be appreciated.

Thank You and good tut

[ProductionSniper]

use $scale in the qc file and a number which multiplies it.

$scale 4 makes 4 times as big

[InteractiveBUD]

Pressing F5 takes me to a menu that looks nothing like what you have... 7:16

[InteractiveBUD]

I just dont understand how the QC file and the other notepad files work.

[CCNezin1]

I also cannot find the correct path : (

there is no .blend file in my Blender file.

[WaffleKing09]

Thanx for the plugin and the ace tutorial = D

[polertop]

Which version of blender do u use

[LilEasterTheTot]

Sweet will this work for goldsource? Because I'm trying to convert a goldsource model to source.

[LawBlind]

Thank you so much

[Xbeanieluver]

Which version of blender do u use becuase i am tryind to install the SMD plugin and i can't find where it go's

[Beardactal]

Help where do u put the plugin ply?i placed it in the blender folder where all those ply folders were and i clicked export but it didn't say anything in it about hl2 mdl D:???

[brothershrike94]

Do you know if this works in Blender 2.5 / are you planning on writing one that works in 2.5 (obviously later once the alphas are done?)

[Dvondrake292]

I haven't tried 2.5 myself, so I wouldn't know if the script works in it. Once 2.5 is officially released, if the script doesn't work properly in 2.5, then I'll fix it up best I can.

[brothershrike94]

great! I've played around a little bit with it myself, and I really like it so far, but it's not quite useable for what I need it to do yet. :(

[ProductionSniper]

Question about the animating part: Does Source recognize simple keyframe (for instance moving something with G)animation or only bone animations?

[pokey4ever]

cool, friggin awesome but one thing... how can you make it bigger? XD

[Dvondrake292]

Select the object and hit S to scale, move the mouse around and click to stop.

[pokey4ever]

@Dvondrake292 Thanks a ton. :) kind of new to modeling XD just installed blender like 2-3 days ago.

[zapper9595]

6:38

what you say?

save it as camera bmp?

[ProductionSniper]

@zapper9595 If you didnt already figure it out yourself in the weeek youve waited: He said .vmt ; thats the file format source recognizes. yous ave it in vtfedit as he says in the video. hope that helped ya! :D

[zapper9595]

i dont have photoshop or gimp D:

[pokey4ever]

@zapper9595 Gimp is fully free so download it. :)

[rex599]

how do i open your Smd Thing?

[ProductionSniper]

This is awesome. I'll keep this in mind. I'm the modeller for Combine Destiny 2, if you maybe heard about it and you just did a great deed in progress mister!! :D

[ProductionSniper]

Question: Why does Source not like Vertices inside the model?

[Dvondrake292]

Sometimes it doesn't care, sometimes it errors out. I honestly don't know, it's like Source has PMS sometimes.

[onedarkdarksphere]

how do i select faces?

[Phygar1]

Onedark, press tab, and it's the third button to the right under the 3d view.

[TeamxAlpha]

Thank you!!

[Phygar1]

I'm extremely new to blender, and I'm wondering how you made that new face in the way beginning. When you kinda, copied the original rectangle into a smaller one.

[Phygar1]

Maybe not extremely new. I'm pretty proficient with the interface I just want to know what that command was.

[ProductionSniper]

@Phygar1 you can copy an object or a load of vertices by pressing shift and d together. to make something new entirely press space and choose from the stuff that comes up! :D

[TeamxAlpha]

It says to go to ".blender" but i cant find it does that mean blender.exe or something?

[JefferyMcLean]

To create a .blender directory (you gotta make it) enter .blender. the trailing period tells Windows that .blender is the file name not the file extension and you have no extension.

If using Linux, Mac or any Unix system this isn't an issue you can just name it .blender

But, yeah you gotta create the directory yourself.

[TeamxAlpha]

You said say to make a folder .blender. but it always says "you must type valid name"

[JefferyMcLean]

Enter .blender. not .blender The trailing period is not optional.

You must force Windows to recognize .blender as the file name by entering a trailing period.

[t205gorillaz]

This tutorial is very frustrating.. You did not tell or show us where to save the exports too, What we name them, Where we put the coding into? (NotePad? What?) and what we save the Coding as and where we put it. Please respond.

[Dvondrake292]

It's kind of obvious. You save everything into one folder--wherever you want. You use NotePad, and the names of the files are in the link that has the contents of the files.

[kawreaVII]

I get a error when exporting :( can anyone please help me?

it just says script error check console

[Dvondrake292]

Try checking the facepunch thread. A lot of people have had that error, and there are solutions all over the place. :)

[FeedMEBabies]

Could you do a tutorial on breakable props that gib?(IE, the dresser in HL2 that breaks up into drawers and cabinets)

Or is that too hardcore for blender D:

[dr3d1337]

I have a question about the files "Idle.smd" and "model.qc". Where do I save them to?

[hggh8]

doesn't work for props. Ive tried 45 times.

[Dvondrake292]

You've done it wrong 45 times.

[gamemak0r]

can you make a tutorial on how to make a mod for gmod?

please!

[sumer100]

How can u export bones in blender to a .smd >:/

[kevaughanshiu]

Man... i wish i knew how to rig up models to other skeletons so like i could get Dystopia player models in Insurgency :3

[KirbySTR]

There a way to color the texture?

[unbrokenjack]

I'm having a problem. A big problem.

Everything on my model is smoothed in-game and in the SDK model viewer ;_; I'm getting no hard edges at all, no matter what I try in Blender. It's not a VMT-controlled thing, so do you know what's wrong?

[unbrokenjack]

I'll PM you the pictures.

[BiglinesNL]

Use the edgesplit modifier, easiest to test is to put everything on smooth, and use the edgesplit modifier to define the sharp edges. Then apply the modifier and it will export nice and sharp (note some extra edges will be added)