Can't Compile

[BumbleBode]

I'm trying to compile animation: "c_engineer_animations.qc" with crowbar and this is the error I get:

// Created by Crowbar 0.71

  Compiling "c_engineer_animations.qc" ...
    Output from compiler "D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\studiomdl.exe": 
      qdir:    "c:\users\jb1t\desktop\new folder\decompiled\all together\"
      gamedir: "D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\"
      g_path:  "c_engineer_animations.qc"
      Building binary model files...
      Working on "c_engineer_animations.qc"
      ---------------------
      writing D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\models/../custom/ZZZ_SCA/models/weapons/c_models/c_engineer_animations.mdl:
      Error opening D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\models/../custom/ZZZ_SCA/models/weapons/c_models/c_engineer_animations.mdl! (Check for write enable)
      
    CROWBAR: Deleted empty temporary compile folder "D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\zzz_sca".
  ... Compiling "c_engineer_animations.qc" finished. Check above for any errors.

What do I do?

[Pte Jack]

Is "D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\" really where your TF2 game is installed? (not in a folder path like D:\Program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common")

[BumbleBode]

Yep

[Pte Jack]

I have had instances on one computer where I tried to compile a model and it fails with this error because the path I was trying to compile to doesn't exist and for some reason or other Studiomdl isn't allowed to create it.

However, It would compile after I created the file path manually.

Go to the compile folder and manually create the path to the folder the model will live in according to the path in the $modelname statement and then try the compile again after the path exists.

(I'm not sure why this happens on that computer, I never really figured it out. I just create the file path manually and be done with it.)

[BumbleBode]

Well in the first tab of crowbar you can customize the directory, that's what I did.

[ZeqMacaw]

This error message might indicate that the $modelname line in the QC file has an invalid path (maybe contains a ".." when it should not):

Error opening D:\Bode\Game Stuff\Platforms\Steam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\models/../custom/ZZZ_SCA/models/weapons/c_models/c_engineer_animations.mdl! (Check for write enable)

Copy-paste the $modelname line from the QC file for us to evaluate.

If the $modelname value does have a ".." in it, then remove it and try compile again.

[BumbleBode]

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[BumbleBode]

It didn't work