Hi,

For the past month, I've gotten into actual modeling and further into QC and smd compiling. For a while now, I've been having some issues compiling lod models for both my custom models, and recompiled models being recompiled.(only to change the materials and model location!)

However when I do this, in the model viewer when I change to the lod model, the model vanishes! Pretty sure my lod models are correct in position and QC.

I'm using Blender to model my models, and I first thought that I was not doing something when setting up a model. (like parenting the lod to the actual model, etc) But now seeing that decompiled assets do the same, I'm starting to wonder what is wrong.

Thanks.

Please post your QC code/LOD part.

Skotty wrote:
Please post your QC code/LOD part.

Right, I did not post it originally, because it worked with such things like propper.

Here is the Portal 1 door that I decompiled and only recompiled to change the paths.

$cd "G:\Source\Portal2\modelsrc\bp_props"
$modelname "bp_props/Door_01_lftDoor_reference.mdl"
$model "Body" "Door_01_lftDoor_reference.smd"
$lod 40
{
  replacemodel "Door_01_lftDoor_reference" "lod1_Door_01_lftDoor_reference"
}
$cdmaterials "models\bp_props"
$hboxset "default"
// Model uses material "bp_door_off.vmt"
$surfaceprop "metal"
$illumposition -0.017 -28.427 50.575
$sequence idle "idle" fps 30.00
$texturegroup skinfamilies {
   { "bp_door_off" }
   { "bp_door_on" }
}

Does not matter what it's for, it should work with a decompiled model, no? Sorry I did not put this sooner. ><

That code is correct. Did you take a look into lod1_Door_01_lftDoor_reference to make sure it has textures?

Thanks Skotty. Apparently it turns out that my lod models textures were loading, but they were wrong. I was under the impression that if it loaded a invalid texture, I would have just got a lod with the error texture. My Portal door, I forgot to change Door_01 to bp_door_off, and with my custom models, Blender renamed the texture from mytexture.tga to mytexture.tga.003.

Thanks again for making me look at the material paths again as I kept thinking it was something with the model/qc.