Problem with QC eyes

[GoblinCrusher]

Hey, I posted about this a while back in the Blender Source Tools group (regarding a different model) but got no response, so here we go again.

I'm getting nothing but white eyes when trying to add QC eyes to the model: https://imgur.com/gssFKSr

I haven't done anything beyond what's in the porting guide (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=245723825) and I've copy-pasted the eyeball VMTs straight from a TF2 model.

QC (eye code is a the top)

$CD "D:\Users\ME\Desktop\Vulpera Female\DMX"

$modelname "avalonsfm\vulpera_female\vulpera_female.mdl"

$eyeposition 0 0 70

$attachment "eyes" "bip_head" 0.00 -49.23 1.47 absolute

$model "vulpera_female" "Faye_Body.dmx" {
	eyeball righteye "bip_head" -2.15 -49.23 1.47 "eyeball_R" 1.00 4 "unused" 0.63
	eyeball lefteye "bip_head" 2.15 -49.23 1.47 "eyeball_L" 1.00 -4 "unused" 0.63

	mouth 0 "mouth" "bip_head" 0 1 0     // mouth illumination
	
	flexcontroller eyes range -45 45 eyes_updown
	flexcontroller eyes range -45 45 eyes_rightleft
	
	}

$bodygroup "Earrings"
{
	studio "Faye_Earrings1.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Earrings2.dmx"
	blank
}

$bodygroup "Ears"
{
	studio "Faye_Ears1.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Ears2.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Ears3.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Ears4.dmx"
	blank
}

//$bodygroup "Eyes"
//{
	//studio "Faye_Eyes1.dmx"
	//studio "Faye_Eyes2.dmx"	
	//studio "Faye_Eyes3.dmx"
	//studio "Faye_Eyes4.dmx"
//	blank
//}

$bodygroup "Bra"
{
	studio "Faye_Bra.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Bra-pulled.dmx"
	blank
}

$bodygroup "Panties"
{
	studio "Faye_Panties.dmx"
	studio "Faye_Panties-pulled.dmx"
	blank
}

$mostlyopaque

$cdmaterials "models\avalonsfm\vulpera_female\"

$texturegroup "Body" 
{
	{"female-vulpera-Skin.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-1.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-2.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-3.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-4.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-5.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-6.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-7.vmt"}
	{"female-vulpera-Skin-8.vmt"}
}

$sequence "idle" "Faye_Body.dmx" {
fps 1
}

VMT:

"EyeRefract"
{
	"$Iris"               "models/player/shared/eye-iris-blue"			  // Iris color in RGB with cornea noise in A
	"$AmbientOcclTexture" "models/player/shared/eye-extra"				  // Ambient occlusion in RGB, A unused
	"$Envmap"             "models/player/shared/eye-reflection-cubemap-"    // Reflection environment map
	"$CorneaTexture"      "models/player/shared/eye-cornea"                 // Special texture that has 2D cornea normal in RG and other data in BA
	"$lightwarptexture"   "models/player/shared/eye_lightwarp"        	      // This enables TF NPR lighting

	"$EyeballRadius" "0.7"				// Default 0.5
	"$AmbientOcclColor" "[1.0 1.0 1.0]"	// Default 0.33, 0.33, 0.33
	"$Dilation" "0.5"					// Default 0.5
	"$ParallaxStrength" "0.25"          // Default 0.25
	"$CorneaBumpStrength" "1.0"			// Default 1.0

	"$halflambert" "1"
	"$nodecal" "1"

	// These effects are only available in ps.2.0b and later
	"$RaytraceSphere" "0"				// Default 1 - Enables raytracing in the pixel shader to make the eyeball look round
	"$SphereTexkillCombo" "0"			// Default 1 - Enables killing pixels that don't ray-intersect the sphere

	// DX8 ps.1.1 fallbacks, original HL2 eyes
	"Eyes_dx8"
	{
		"$basetexture"	"models/player/shared/dxlevel80/eyeball_l"
		"$iris"         "models/player/shared/dxlevel80/iris_blue_l"
	}

	// Cloaking
	"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"
	"Proxies"
	{
		"spy_invis"
		{
		}
	}
}

[episoder]

you gotta add another attachement. just a dummy actually. the eyes are glitchy when it's not present. you also gotta change the location of the eye attatchement and eyeball centers like so...

$attachment "eyes" "bip_head" 0.00 1.47 49.23 absolute

...

	eyeball righteye "bip_head" -2.15 1.47 49.23 "eyeball_R" 1.00 4 "unused" 0.63
	eyeball lefteye "bip_head" 2.15 1.47 49.23 "eyeball_L" 1.00 -4 "unused" 0.63

... casue blender exports z-up. that means the z-direction is upwards.

[GoblinCrusher]

All right, the attachment point is fixed: https://imgur.com/Q8gCtlp

I compared before and after and in the before the attachment point was somewhere down by her feet and a bit in front, so that's definitely one problem solved :)

The eyes are still blank though, so there's still something wrong. For testing, I replaced one of the eyeball VMTs with a "simple" version I found in another forum thread, to no sucess (the pink eye).

I've also added an additional attachment point like you suggested, so the QC is written like this now:

$attachment "eyes" "bip_head" 0.00 1.47 49.23 absolute
$attachment "mouth" "bip_head" 0.80 -5.80 -0.15 rotate 0 -80 -90

$model "vulpera_female" "Faye_Body.dmx" {
	eyeball righteye "bip_head" -2.15 1.47 49.23 "eyeball_R" 1.00 4 "unused" 0.63
	eyeball lefteye "bip_head" 2.15 1.47 49.23 "eyeball_L" 1.00 -4 "unused" 0.63

	mouth 0 "mouth" "bip_head" 0 1 0     // mouth illumination
	
	flexcontroller eyes range -45 45 eyes_updown
	flexcontroller eyes range -45 45 eyes_rightleft

	}

and the simple VMT:

eyes
{
	$basetexture "models\avalonsfm\vulpera_female\pupil_ambient"
	$iris "models\avalonsfm\vulpera_female\pupil"
}

Thanks for the response btw. Like I said, didn't get anything with my previous post, so I'm grateful for any assistance I can get.

[GoblinCrusher]

I also tried pushing the co-ordinates further back into the head with no discernable difference.

[episoder]

mmh. this should actually work now. the coordinates seem correct. are you certain the textures are in the correct place?

i got no better idea rn.

[GoblinCrusher]

I tried adjusting the last three values on the eyeball command line, and I also replaced the "eyeball_L" VMT with one from a previous model where I've gotten the QC eyes working. No change.

Here's a video of what the eyes look like when rotating around the model in HLMV: https://uploadir.com/u/d2x1m57o

[GoblinCrusher]

Gonna bump this one more time, just in case.