Getting all the files I need to upload my playermodel to gmod.

[brazen raft]

I have gone through the process of rigging and weight painting the model to work in gmod, but I can't get all the necessary files to upload it to my game.

One of the files I need to get is the .vvd file of my model and I can't find anything that talks about how to get that.

I don't know if I need to get new versions of the dx80 and dx90 vtx files so if someone could clarify that for me, that would be amazing.

I don't understand what the sw vtx file is for.

I have pointed the materials in the .qc to look at the correct folder but when I load the game, my model is invisible.

I have a png of the textures I got for the model that I converted into 2 vtx and vmt files. Not sure if this is part of the problem, but I honestly don't know.

If anyone needs clarification on anything to help me out, please let me know.

[winged sequoia]

aight i know one bit i can help with

at the top of your vmts

make SURE it's "vertexlitgeneric" and not "lightmappedgeneric"

vertexlitgeneric is for stuff like models and lightmappedgeneric is for map stuff like walls and floors

are you clicking the mesh then the skeleton and exporting?

[brazen raft]

I just pressed "a" to highlight everything

[brazen raft]

I did do this wrong, I'll go back and change it

[winged sequoia]

and then when you export, what do you click>

selected objects or a specific collection?

[brazen raft]

I think I did specified collection

[winged sequoia]

do selected objects

[brazen raft]

The one on the bottom, right

[winged sequoia]

also, is crowbar throwing up an error about vvd?

have you copied someone's qc file from online?

[winged sequoia]

seems you only have one thing selected

[brazen raft]

yeah

[winged sequoia]

select the mesh then the skeleton

[brazen raft]

I just launched blender back up, thats why

[winged sequoia]

also, the vvd dependency is likely coming from a line in your qc

can you upload it?

[brazen raft]

yeah, one sec

[winged sequoia]

all good mate, i've just tackled with my own annoying crowbar problems so i'm down to help

[brazen raft]

I really appreciate it man

[winged sequoia]

also-- vvd data is generated upon compiling with crowbar

meaning that i don't think you've exported your mesh

[brazen raft]

oh that's where it comes from?

there's the qc

[winged sequoia]

you sent a shortcut to me

rather than uploading the whole file

drag and drop your qc here

[brazen raft]

whoops

[winged sequoia]

seems to be fine

select your mesh then the skeleton then export selected objects

then get the smd with the name of your mesh, rename it to whatever it needs to be, then delete the other one

point crowbar towards your qc, set the game to garry's mod, compile then see if it loads

[brazen raft]

It worked! I was able to view the model through crowbar after it finished compiling! Only issue now is that it is an error in game for some reason

[winged sequoia]

are you sure it's in the same folder that it says in the qc?

addons\ModName\player\imagundi\senzata\

that includes the "add valid playermodel" lua

player_manager.AddValidModel( "Senzata", "models/player/imagundi/senzata/senzata.mdl" )

[brazen raft]

yeah

[winged sequoia]

go into your qc

and change all the \ to /

then recompile

in the $model line

[brazen raft]

alright, done

do these matter in crowbar

[winged sequoia]

no

qc input means that you're loading a .qc

output to means you're exporting to a folder in the same folder as the qc

so if my qc file is in "ButtNugget" folder, my compiled folder would be in "ButtNugget" too

it's usually something like compiled 0.72 or smth

[brazen raft]

Okay I finally got it @winged sequoia

The only thing not loading now is the textures

I named the vtf and vmt files the same as the material in blender because I saw that you were supposed to do that. Not sure what else I need to do to make the materials load in.

[winged sequoia]

ya need to change both the name and the file path inside the vmt

[brazen raft]

how do I change the file path?

[winged sequoia]

open up the vmt

then in the $basetexture part

the last part's gotta be the same name as the vtf

the vtf itself can be any name since it loads the vmt as the material

but it's gotta point towards the right part

[brazen raft]

Is that right?

[winged sequoia]

2 seconds

yeah

if that's the name of the material

in blender

[brazen raft]

this is all how it looked when I took the ss of the model

one sec

Is this all correct?

for the autorun

[winged sequoia]

did you change the \ to / in the $cdmaterials line?

[brazen raft]

yeah but that ended up not letting me compile it in crowbar

[winged sequoia]

what was the error?

[brazen raft]

ill redo it and take a ss

just in the cdmaterials line or in all of the ones that look for a directory?

[winged sequoia]

try just the cd materials line

[brazen raft]

got it

alright it let me compile, lemme check to see if it works in game

It didn't work :/

[winged sequoia]

and you're 100% sure that's the material name assigned in blender?

[brazen raft]

yeah

[winged sequoia]

that has no s

remove the s from the vmt and vtf

"senzatatextures"

[brazen raft]

holy shit

[winged sequoia]

should be "senzatatexture"

[brazen raft]

bro i love you for catching that

[winged sequoia]

yeah ya fuck about with materials long enough and you get an eye for it

that's why i name my materials after the colour

[brazen raft]

holy shit it worked

dude

i love you so much