I'm not 100% sure, but you can try crazy bump.

This sounds like a normals issue. Faces can only be textured from one side. In edit mode, select your model and click "recalculate normals". This might/might not work, so if it doesn't you'll need to manually flip the normals of the model yoruself.

It could also be a positioning issue in which case you'll need to make sure the bone rig was applied properly (and not rotated/moved in some weird angle/position).

Unwrap the faces of your model that you want to glow onto a separate UV space. Add a new material to the model and assign this material[dl.dropboxusercontent.com] to the faces that you want to glow (make sure you have 2 materials at this point: one for the main model and one for the glowing parts). If you correctly assigned 2 materials to your model, you should see VMT1 and VMT2 when you import the .smd into TF2 like in this picture.[dl.dropboxusercontent.com]

Import your regular texture to VMT1 and proceed as normal. For the VMT2, you'll want to import a .tga file that has a white alpha channel (or a spectrum from white to black depending on how much glow you want. More white = more glow, black = no glow). Make sure to import this .tga file into the "Shared Illum Mask" option and then check the Self Illumination box.

Well if you're using notepad++ there is the find/replace feature. You can just replace all instances of a string with another string.

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Good Idea.

Thanks for making this! This is extremely detailed and no doubt will help many people! I especially like the integration of the cycles render engine which I should probably start using myself.

Not that I know of. Manually compiling isn't too complicated, though. What part is taking you the longest? Writing the QC file? Organizing everything? I might be able to give some better advice if I know your workflow.

You can select UVs and move them. Not sure what the problem is.

I'm not sure what's wrong. You might need to explain the problem better (maybe show me a picture).