Hey guys, I copied the fizzler_dynamic model and I've changed the .qc file to support 10 skins (up to fizzler_dynamic_skin009.) For some reason the textures aren't showing up on the model and I can only select 9 of the ten skins, skin009 is missing. I've placed all the textures in materials/phoenix/props/fizzler/ and the model is located in models/EP/. Does the model need to know where to find the textures, or is it just the textures find the model?

If anyone can help me with getting the 10th skin to work and the textures to show up, that would be greatly appreciated.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.)

// Created by Crowbar 0.24.0.0

Compiling...

qdir:    "c:\users\daniel\desktop\"
gamedir: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2\"
g_path:  "fizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc"
Building binary model files...
Working on "fizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc"
ERROR: c:\users\daniel\desktop\fizzler_dynamic_hlmv.qc(7): - could not load file 'fizzler_dynamic2_reference.smd'
ERROR: Aborted Processing on 'for_model_viewer\fizzler_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.

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.

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.

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

$phongboost 4

$phongfresnelranges "[1 1.5 2]"
}

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.....

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.
```
VertexLitGeneric
{
$basetexture "materials/models/phoenix/fizzler/fizzler_skin002"
$selfillum 1
$bumpmap "models\props\metal_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.

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

This.
Why did you change the materials? I rechecked mine and they're all ok... without the 'materials' word in.

Quote:
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.

Thank you! I'm not entirely sure why I added "materials" but everything looks to be working now! Thank you guys for helping me out!

The models and textures are perfectly fine now, but for some reason the model has a strange hitbox. Part of the model is solid while others aren't. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm so close.

The decompiler may break the physbox partially. You could upload the .smd file and I can take a look on it.

Skotty wrote:
The decompiler may break the physbox partially. You could upload the .smd file and I can take a look on it.

I'm so sorry, I have no idea what I'm doing. I would assume you wanted a file from after the model was compiled, but I can't find and .smd, though I do have one from before it was compiled.

I tried to figure out a way to quote josepezdj's download link, but I can't seem to get that to work. I'll just reattach it. Sorry for all this trouble.

Yes, as usual the physics model wasn't recompiled 100% correctly.
Often it is just the rotation of the mesh which isn't correct. And this was the problem here, too.

I fixed that in the physics.smd for you. See attachment.

Sorry to keep asking, but where am I supposed to put the file? Do I need to recompile using this? I'm hoping not, given I had to get josepezdj to fix most of my compiling issues for me.

Well, you need to use the file that Skotty posted to replace the file with the same name that you should have where you have the rest of files after you decompiled the model, then recompile the model again. This way you'll see how now the model has the right collision model.

I'm attaching again the model, source files and materials but this time using Skotty's physics file:

fizzler_dynamic_model.7z

Thank you so much guys, everything is working!