I'v just stumbled along a problem where I want to compile my weapon model so i can see it in the test map but the GUIstudio mdl doesn't seem to want to work. I get the following messages:

http://puu.sh/5yXpU.png

http://puu.sh/5yXxS.png

I'm a bit concerned as I cant seem to find my Source sdk folder under my username:

http://puu.sh/5yXHf.jpg

Thanks

Thankyou both for the nice comments and looking forward to seeing your winter set in the workshop linkunarre :)

Based on my first guitar idea comes a christmas variant! Hope you like it :)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=198696004&searchtext=

I was looking into this recently. In the vmt of the material you want to paint, tick the paint box and in the vmt of the material you want to glow, tick "self illumination" and whack up the values underneath. I used 3000 for each value on my current model. You can use one material i think if you want to paint the glowing area. You can also do it all with one material if you use normal mapping but I don't know much about that

Thanks I understand now.

One thing I have imported the spy and spycicle into blender and assume there is a way to place the spycicle in the hand of the spy like it would appear in game or do you just have to in edit mode place it approximately? Just want to check iv decompiled all the correct stuff.

http://puu.sh/5nkix.jpg

Hey Helljumper really good advice again! I'm interested in trying to do a weapon at some point when i'v got some spare time just for fun as I know Valve are unlikely to accept it. One thing though; not sure what you meant by " superimpose your model directly on top of the decompiled weapon".

Say if i wanted to create a weapon that was similar to the spycicle. I would import the model into blender then delete it once i had rigged my model in the same way using the same bones? This will give me the same animation as the spycicle ingame??

Thanks

@linkunarre Thanks very much means alot :)

Unfortunately, just looked, it seems I released the item at a bad time. It kinda got buried by about 12 christmas items by one user. Heres hoping it gets on the first page at least

Thanks for rating it up and for all the support and advice whilst I was creating it.

is this what you meant by the reddit thing btw:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/new/

Have i posted it correctly. is it meant to just link back to the workshop page?? thanks i am new to reddit

Feel free to upvote\downvote. Just hope it gets enough views :)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=194189674&searchtext=