Model request: Chrom from Fire Emblem

[76561198847376796]

I know there’s already a model for Chrom on the Steam workshop, but it’s not the Chrom I’m looking for. I’m looking for Warriors Chrom, like the one in my profile picture. Please?

[Kumquat [Velbud]]

https://www.deviantart.com/burningenchanter/art/Updated-Chrom-701050560

Found your model, now you just need to port it to SFM.

[76561198847376796]

Oh, wow! Looks great! It’ll work perfectly! Thanks!

[76561198847376796]

Well, I finally tried to port the model, and it's filled to the brim with PNG files, but the only ones in there besides PNG files are a single POSE file, a single ASCII file, and a single XPS document. I can't get ANY of these files to show up in Blender, and what's more, I can't find any of the files you can use to import to Blender. I've never seen these files before, except for the PNG files. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!!

[Marco Skoll]

Those are entirely normal files for an XNALara/XPS model.

In the same way as Source's SMD and DMX files, XNA's XPS and ASCII files are not natively supported by Blender, but there are plug-ins:
https://github.com/johnzero7/XNALaraMesh

Even if you never use XNALara itself, you'll want these, as XNALara is not at all dissimilar to SFM/GMod in that it has a wide community of people porting assets to it. A lot of SFM models do in fact start in XNALara.

[76561198847376796]

I was completely unaware of this! Thanks!
Edit: I downloaded the files for XNALara, but the website didn't give me any instructions on how to connect it to Blender. (poor wording selection, sorry. Don't know how else to say it) Could you tell me how?

[Marco Skoll]

Installing Blender add-ons is actually relatively simple, as Blender can be convinced to do the job of putting it in the right place for you.

- On GitHub, select the option to download as an entire ZIP file "under" the green download button.
- Put that file (you should NOT unzip it) somewhere you can find it (making an "installers" folder in your Blender projects folder isn't a bad idea).
- Open Blender and go to File -> User Preferences (or Ctrl+Alt+U)
- Go to the Add-ons tab, and then click "Install Add-on from file" on the bottom bar.
- Navigate to your ZIP file and open it.
- The Add-ons window will now show your newly added module. Activate it by ticking the box next to it.

[76561198847376796]

IT WORKED!!!! Thank you SOOOO much!!!
Edit: Sorry, I was so desperate to get Chrom on SFM, since he’s my favorite Fire Emblem character.