Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- $model silco "silco.dmx" {
eyeball "RightEye" "bip_head" -1.48725 -4.49933 79.0266 "eyeball_R" 1 0 "NotUsed" 1
eyeball "LeftEye" "bip_head" 1.48725 -4.49933 79.0266 "eyeball_L" 1 0 "NotUsed" 1
flexcontroller "Eyes" range -90 90 "Eyes_UpDown"
flexcontroller "Eyes" range -90 90 "Eyes_RightLeft"
}
$Body "silco" "silco.dmx" -

"silco.dmx" is loaded by $Model, so you should delete the $Body line.

Also, to make the eye sliders less sensitive, replace "-90 90" with "-45 45". 45 degrees is what's usually used for the eye sliders.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- $MaxEyeDeflection 90 -

Unless you know that you need this line, you can delete it. Most models don't manually set $MaxEyeDeflection.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

-
$SurfaceProp "flesh"
$Contents "solid"
-
$CBox 0 0 0 0 0 0
$BBox -8.749 -18.9 -0.164 5.622 18.576 74.046
-
$CollisionModel "silco.dmx"
{
$mass 100
$inertia 1
$damping 0
$rotdamping 0
$concave
}

You don't need to, but feel free to delete all of these lines. They don't do anything useful for Source Filmmaker.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

I have sent you the code for his eye setup. I thought another model's eye setup would match his eyes, but this happened. Which of these should I fix? - [The eye VMT]

After making the above changes to the QC file, is there still a problem with the eyes? If so, exactly what is the problem?

If the problem is that the iris/pupil texture is too big, then you can change that in the QC file by changing the final number on the Eyeball lines (after "NotUsed").

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- On SFM Team Fortress 2 characters' eyes move without any problems. - my model's eye can only move both at the same time in Blender. On SFM, it doesn't exist. - [Link]

You have to give the left and right eyes separate materials using the EyeRefract or Eyes shaders (with centred iris/pupil textures), and set up the eyes in the model's QC file using Eyeball with centre coordinates of each eyeball, flex controllers named "eyes_updown" and "eyes_rightleft", and an $Attachment called "eyes". This way, you can use Source's dynamic eye UV projection system, like Team Fortress 2 models.
Try to find a guide about eyes in Source Filmmaker, Garry's Mod, or the Source Engine in general.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- $Body "silco" "silco.dmx"
}
$Body "silco" "silco.dmx"
}
$Body "silco" "silco.dmx"
} -

Delete these six lines, and add this single line:

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- The code of its main material has been sent to you. -

Try deleting the $SurfaceProp, $NormalMapAlphaEnvMapMask, $HalfLambert, and $DiffuseExp lines from the VMT.
Also, add two forward slashes in front of the $LightWarpTexture line (to disable it temporarily), like...

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- $BodyGroup "silco"
{
studio "silco.dmx"
}
$BodyGroup "silco"
{
studio "silco.dmx"
}
$BodyGroup "silco"
{
studio "silco.dmx"
} -

You're loading "silco.dmx" three times, which is bad for flexes.
(Also, if you don't want more than one body group option, $BodyGroup does the same as $Body.)

You should replace these $BodyGroup functions with just...Afterwards, compile the model again, reboot Source Filmmaker, and test the model in a new session.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

I have made the problems more clear so that you may understand better. - [Images]

Please open one of the material VMT files, copy all text, and paste it in a comment here.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

- the Shape key will still not work - How to make these Shape keys work normally on SFM? -

Please open the model's QC file, copy all text, and paste it in a comment here.

Originally posted by ✞ Medic°Strange ✞:

WARNING: 1337 verts on "Silco_mesh" have over 3 weight links. Source does not support this! ~ This error appears when converting with the .dmx extension. >.< But it worked without any errors when converting to .smd. -

If SMD meshes have a vertex that's assigned to more than 3 bones, StudioMDL (the model compiler) can automatically remove anything beyond the third link.
If DMX meshes have a vertex that's assigned to more than 3 bones, StudioMDL will show an error and abort compiling the model.

Therefore, the Blender Source Tools plug-in shows a warning when exporting a DMX with more than 3 bone links per vertex, while it doesn't with SMD.

The Blender Source Tools has a "weight link cull threshold" option near the export button. Slide this all the way to 1.0, then the Blender Source Tools plug-in will automatically remove anything beyond the third bone link when exporting the DMX, allowing you to compile the model (at the cost of the DMX not having all bone links... but since the compiled model wouldn't have that even with SMD, that's not an issue).

Originally posted by java.lang.SkillException:

- I have a feeling the problem has something to do with the reference mesh being concave, -

That's correct. StudioMDL's triangulation can sometimes mess up with concave polygons, so you should cut the concave polygon into multiple convex polygons instead.

For example, picture that your polygon's edge is a road, and place an imaginary car on it.
Can the car complete an entire lap around the polygon while only turning clockwise (or only counter-clockwise)? If so, it's convex, which is good.
But if it has to turn the other way at some point, the polygon is concave, and you have to split it (at the point where the car turns the second way) to try making multiple convex polygons instead.

In other words, the outside edge must always curve "inward", never "outward". If it curves "outward", you have to cut it where it starts curving out (even if this is for every vertex along a curve).


TL;DR: In this example image (with a cherry pin instead of a door), you'd have to cut at the blue lines in https://imgur.com/LBcHTXE ...or alternatively just use Blender's "Triangulate Faces" option to turn the polygon entirely into triangles.

Originally posted by Artfunkel:

- I am telling you for the third time that you cannot do it.

You can't have multiple bone parents in SMD/DMX files, but can't you use math to figure out what position relative to one parent bone would be the same as the original position relative to two parents edit: relative to the constraints (automatically baking the animation to just one parent bone)?

(This might look slightly off when interpolating between frames, due to the different parenting, but every written frame should look correct.)

Originally posted by EL MAPACHE:

- Since I want to use my animations in GMod the MDL files have to be bellow a certain file size. -

Can you compile different animations (or groups of animations) as separate MDL files, and have the "main" animation MDL use $IncludeModel to load the other MDLs?

(This is not a "solution", only a workaround.)

Originally posted by Satanism's Nanochips:

Ok, by wrong size i mean that even in blender the size is big, - its the same huge size in both Blender and Unity, -

In that case, don't worry, that's normal. That's just due to the Source engine often having big units for models (and maps and such).