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Invisible Reskin/Addon Problem
I've made reskin addons before and never had this problem, so I'm wondering what's going on now.

Basically I have the "Fabiana Branco" model that replaces Rochelle, and I tried to reskin her, I did everything correct, and tested it out in game, and it worked, but I went back to fix the makeup on the face. I saved everything like I had been doing, and now the whole character is invisible. I disabled, and even unsubscribed to any addons that conflicted, and she was still invisible, I restarted the game, and still nothing, I verified the cache, and nothing, I did things like reverse the reskin folder to an earlier date, and made new folders and started from scratch again, saving the reskins as .TGA files and yet the character always is invisible. I tried with Zoey and she shows up perfectly. I'm using the VPK.exe from Left 4 Dead 1, but I don't see why that'd would be a problem considering it worked earlier for Rochelle, it radnomly jst made her invisible. Anything I can do to fix this?

This is an example of how Rochelle is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJzzsiqgIhA
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Everice Mar 2, 2018 @ 9:27am 
Did you look into the vmt file? To make sure it points to the correct folders where you put all skin files in. And check your file name to replaces as Rochelle not Zoey

Try to ask in Modding/Helping section, modders are usually hanging around there rather than this section
Originally posted by ※Avx※『Yozora』:
Did you look into the vmt file? To make sure it points to the correct folders where you put all skin files in. And check your file name to replaces as Rochelle not Zoey

Try to ask in Modding/Helping section, modders are usually hanging around there rather than this section

Yes. I did a simple Zoey face reskin, and used the vpk.exe and it worked in game perfectly, I took the Fabiana for Rochelle skin, and tried reskinning it, and the rochelle character shows up invisible. I did take the vpk.exe from the Left 4 Dead first game, so I'm thinking it might be that causing the issue. Hmm.. i'll check the other section though.
PoTaToSaLaD Mar 2, 2018 @ 9:40am 
ouais j'avoue, ta trop raison
Everice Mar 2, 2018 @ 9:40am 
I think vpk from ep1 is not the problem.

The ploblem maybe from your skin files. Try to look into your vmt where the codes are

I apologize as I can't help you that much, i'm not a skin/model modder, i'm a scripts modder.
Originally posted by ※Avx※『Yozora』:
I think vpk from ep1 is not the problem.

The ploblem maybe from your skin files. Try to look into your vmt where the codes are

I apologize as I can't help you that much, i'm not a skin/model modder, i'm a scripts modder.

Well I subscribed to Fabiana Branco from the workshop, she worked, so then I closed the game, made a new folder on my desktop, went to my addons folder, copied the Fabiana file to desktop, and dragged the contents from the Fabiana in the workshop to the new folder, I didn't reskin, I just put them in the vpk.exe and then dragged the compiled addon to my folder and put it in Addons. loaded the game, unchecked the workshop Fabiana, but kept mine checked. Even that didn't work, but I did the same with a Zoey skin for Zoey and it worked. I don't seem to be missing any vmts from the Fabiana so it must be happening while compiling, I just don't know why.
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Date Posted: Mar 2, 2018 @ 6:39am
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