Quote from josepezdj on January 8, 2015, 2:35 am

You should post your .QC file content. Also did you use Crowbar to decompile/recompile the fizzler_dynamic model?

MetallicHero wrote:

Does the model need to know where to find the textures, or is it just the textures find the model?

The model definitely needs to find its textures, but that should be no problem if you set their path into the .QC file correctly, and then placed the textures inside that path ofc.

Quote from Skotty on January 8, 2015, 10:29 am

To be more exact: The model needs to find its materials. Materials are VMT files. And they link to the textures.

Quote from MetallicHero on January 9, 2015, 8:06 am

I tried again, this time looking into the directory in the .qc file. I've screwed that up now.
Hope someone can help me out.

Quote from josepezdj on January 9, 2015, 1:40 pm

Well, at a first glance you only added the file extension .VMT to the first 3 materials, the rest weren't well defined.

Try the attached file instead.

Quote from MetallicHero on January 9, 2015, 7:54 pm

Thank you for the fixed file, but I'm having compile issues. Crowbar says there's 1 leak found in the QC. I'm comparing the modified to the original QC, but I haven't found any differences (besides the changed names.)

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// Created by Crowbar 0.24.0.0

Compiling...

qdir:    "c:usersdanieldesktop"
gamedir: "C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappscommonportal 2portal2"
g_path:  "fizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc"
Building binary model files...
Working on "fizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc"
ERROR: c:usersdanieldesktopfizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc(7): - could not load file 'fizzler_dynamic2_reference.smd'
ERROR: Aborted Processing on 'for_model_viewerfizzler_dynamic2.mdl'
WARNING: Leaking 1 elements
CDynamicFunction: Loading library 'Kernel32.dll' (76420000)
CDynamicFunction: Lookup of 'TryEnterCriticalSection' in 'Kernel32.dll': 771E2540
CDynamicFunction: Closing library 'Kernel32.dll' (76420000)

...Compiling finished. Check above for any errors.


Quote from josepezdj on January 10, 2015, 5:08 am

It seems that it can't find the file 'fizzler_dynamic2_reference.smd', and what's that file? you should not need to modify any of the decompiled files except the .QC file. And you need the rest of files in the SAME folder than the .QC file when compiling the model. Check for these files:

Anyways, I've done a test and it works as it should.

Check out the attached files:

fizzler_dynamic_model.7z

You should only need to add now the lacking 7 .VTF files to the folder /materials/models/phoenix/fizzler and you're done.

Quote from MetallicHero on January 10, 2015, 3:36 pm

First off, I want to go ahead and thank josepezdj for helping me get this far. The model is working but I'm now having issues with the textures. They're stored in /materials/models/phoenix/fizzler/ like you said, but they're still not showing up. I'm looking on the VDC to see if there's anything in the VMT that I'm missing.

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VertexLitGeneric
{
$basetexture "materials/models/phoenix/fizzler/fizzler_skin002"
$selfillum 1
$bumpmap "modelspropsmetal_box_normal"
$phong 1
$model 1

$phongboost 4

$phongfresnelranges "[1 1.5 2]"
}


Quote from josepezdj on January 10, 2015, 4:09 pm

I don't know either, mine is working ok, I've copied the skin002 over and over to make the rest skins and all of them are showing up correctly:

Therefore the materials (.VMTs) are all ok.

You have surely changed something more.....

Quote from CamBen on January 10, 2015, 4:29 pm

MetallicHero wrote:

First off, I want to go ahead and thank josepezdj for helping me get this far. The model is working but I'm now having issues with the textures. They're stored in /materials/models/phoenix/fizzler/ like you said, but they're still not showing up. I'm looking on the VDC to see if there's anything in the VMT that I'm missing.

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VertexLitGeneric
{
$basetexture "materials/models/phoenix/fizzler/fizzler_skin002"
$selfillum 1
$bumpmap "modelspropsmetal_box_normal"
$phong 1
$model 1

$phongboost 4

$phongfresnelranges "[1 1.5 2]"
}


I think you need to change "materials/models/Phoenix..."
To this:
"Models/Phoenix..."

I'm pretty sure the materials folder can be omitted, cause the engine already knows that those are materials.