How do I recompile a once MDL file?

[prince gaylord]

I decompiled Francis' animations because I had to reedit some. How do I now recompile the folder of where all the animations are to MDL?

[green]

Drag the .QC into the compile tab, set the game to L4D2, and hit compile.

[green]

Originally posted by SomeMechanic:

Originally posted by Hunter in the Green Vest:

Drag the .QC into the compile tab, set the game to L4D2, and hit compile.

I'm using Left 4 Dead 1, will I still have to recompile it to Left 4 Dead 2?

Ah no, use L4D1 then.

[green]

Can you post line 21 of your .QC?

[green]

Perhaps the coordinates are off? The error seems to imply that. Is this a line you added, or was it in the original .qc?

[green]

It's strange that it's in the original, yet has an error. Try the L4D2 compiler.

[green]

You could try putting a // in front of the affected lines, and see how it turns out. You can also try messing around with the coordinates. More info here:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$hbox

[ZeqMacaw]

The error message does not give a line number. The two numbers probably are the frame index that is wrong and the frame count used in the $animation or $sequence called @Reload_Standing_Shotgun_end.

[ZeqMacaw]

Seriously?

You made edits to a model and you do not know where to edit this? You open the QC file in a text editor, find that animation name in the file, and then change the value that is causing the problem or maybe redo the animation so that it has a different number of frames.

[ZeqMacaw]

I tried recompiling L4D anim_biker.mdl with Crowbar 0.62 and discovered that the anim SMD in the error message was not fully written. Thus, Crowbar 0.62 has a bug with decompiling some anim SMD files.

I'll look into what causes the problem and fix as soon as I can.

Meanwhile, you could try using older versions of Crowbar, but is unlikely that they would do any better.

[ZeqMacaw]

My previous post was incorrect. The error was not due to bad SMD file, but due to bad value in an ikrule line for the $sequence.
To fix so it will compile, within the $sequence "Reload_Standing_Shotgun_end" block, change the 40 in the range option to a 20 in the ikrule "lhand" line.
In other words, change line FROM:

ikrule "lhand" touch "ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Hand" contact 5 fakeorigin 0 0 0 fakerotate 0 0 0 floor 0 height 0 radius 0 range 0 5 20 40 target 1

TO:

ikrule "lhand" touch "ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Hand" contact 5 fakeorigin 0 0 0 fakerotate 0 0 0 floor 0 height 0 radius 0 range 0 5 20 20 target 1

[ZeqMacaw]

See bug report: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CrowbarTool/discussions/1/1639788130273536030/