Converting GTA Online Character into SFM

[Pepsi Man: Spirit of Vengeance]

Good evening. I'm relativly new to this kind of programing stuff and I've mostly been just messing around placing random models in SFM. I want to use my character from Grand Theft Auto Online for a project I am working on, but I do not know how I could accomplish this. Is there any tutorial or guide I could get a link to so I can somehow port the model into SFM? Thanks much!

[Marco Skoll]

As far as I know, all the tools/plug-ins for importing GTA content only work for expensive commercial modelling programs (rather than for Blender, which is free but still very powerful).

Unfortunately, this pretty much makes such a project inaccessible to newcomers.
Or just anyone who doesn't want to pay hundreds of dollars a month for/is too honest to pirate a program that is arguably worse for modelling for Source than Blender. (Far more people around here use Blender than any other modelling program, which means more help and more guides).

[sn0wsh00]

Hopefully I'm not too late, but yes, it is possible to convert GTA: Online characters into SFM using Blender. Here's a tutorial that can help:

https://forum.facepunch.com/dev/qwkb/How-to-EXPORT-from-GTA-V-into-Blender-Intended-for-GMod-people-maybe-for-you-too/1/

You can download ytdydryddyft2txddffcol here (link in the tutorial is broken):
https://github.com/DK22Pac/v2saconv


And here's a tutorial on how to convert those models into the Source engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ijkbe_EKAs


If you don't feel like rigging from scratch, you can also grab a bunch of models from this collection of GTA: Online characters for GMOD:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=907054432

And here are some GTA:O characters I ported into SFM:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1707525121

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