@8sianDude so he's going to do the same thing but paid

Remove left hand

Finally. the CHeese knife

neat

He quit modding to pursue a 3D modelling and animation career

yo what happened to empty

Thanks for the help before, I was able to get my knife mod working and published: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2596271786

Fucking military tactical knives kitchen knives work better

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cuchillo villero

not bad

its nice

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k,

Alright, thanks for the suggestions, I'll check out the video and I could probably try the .vmt change real quick, but it is past 5 a.m. and I should probably get some sleep. lol

Nice

yea check those if you'd like

but that error occurs usually when the .vmt is a blank, 'lightmappedgeneric' type. if you open the .vmt and change that to something like vertexlitgeneric you should have your texture appear.

in addition to the links 8sian provided, i would also recommend referencing and looking at what other people have done a bit more. for example look at the things they've used and research the topic (so for example if a .vmt is using phongexponenttexture, try looking it up on the valve developer community wiki to see its purpose and how it works)

I suggest you take a good look at Funreal's Youtube tutorial: https://youtu.be/ilqhtS5wqsA , which pretty much sums up the whole missing texture issue. Alternatively, you can try asking for help in Dead4Mods: https://discord.gg/4qtmzBP

I finally got around to changing the name and compiling again. Got in the game and the model was completely invisible except for an outline when you drop it. I got this message on repeat: "Material models/weapons/model_name/model_name_material does not support vertex format used by the mesh
(maybe missing fields or mismatched vertex compression?),
mesh will not be rendered. Grab a programmer!". Any ideas on what I need to change?

I have some things to check out now, thank you.

ah i remember having this situation when i did a hatchet mod a long time ago

have you checked to see if the .vmt file for the texture is the same name as the material in blender? also is the $cdmaterial in the .qc the same as the actual folder structure, does the .vmt also follow this structure

regarding the other points, 1024 resolution is fine. and regarding the suffixes (d and e) that's the common naming convention for mods like these, they mean 'diffuse' and 'exponent' respectively. they aren't necessary but help with organizing.

displacement and elevation maps are afaik, something source would never really use, i think that's more for actually deforming the mesh according to the black and whiteness of the texture. don't take my word for it on that part; i could be wrong.

Continuing on from the below comment, I noticed your folder included a texture with a .d and one with a .e name, but I wasn't sure if they stood for displacement and elevation or if they were even required. I've been hitting a wall with getting my texture to show up on the model in game for a few days now. Not finding very good tutorials on this.

How did you get the texture to show up in game? I've been working on my own knife mod and can only get the model to show up in the characters hand with a pink and black checkered texture instead of the one I made. In blender I tried making a generic texture map and even a normal map and exporting to .smd and making a very small change to the .qc file and compiling and packaging, but to no effect. Is 1024 px too large for the texture map in game or do I need a displacement map or what would you suggest?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1453837976

nice

It is in "most popular" now.

No plans on the double barrel. Though I'll probably get the machete model to L4D2 since I've already ported it to Gmod.

Are you going to do that under-and-over shottie one of the villagers had?

Why every knife mod makes it swing the wrong way..

@8sianDude I guessed right :D

FACA NA CAVEIRA

@8sianDude, my guy it did reach popular

''WhAt Am I gOnNa Do WiTh A kNiFe???''

Yes but, most of your items that you been making have been popular so, I just guessed that this one is gonna get popular too.

It's just a knife. It's not going to get most popular lol.

Here before this item is on the most popular this week : )

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I'm gonna nut.

well not gun in this case, melee

another fine gun as always 8sianDude, the knife with those animations is sick