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3D Modeling Shenanigans and I Need Help
5 years ago
Hey peeps, it's yer friendly neighborhood GlenSkunk here! Wanted to drop a line to you folks to let you know what's been going on...recently, I've become enamored with doing 3d work again. Hard! I've taken Blender out for a spin and have started doing character models here and there, porting them over to VRChat and (hopefully) Source Filmmaker.
While the former is a fairly straightforward process for me to do, the latter is proving to be much more difficult to pull off...textures not loading, models being too complex, hard to find documentation or help with it, or making sense of it...right now I'm trying to bring this character model ( http://puu.sh/GP4O3/07ea01883e.jpg ) into SFM, but I'm getting strange results, like the model being outright invisible in Crowbar's model viewer, and just showing up as the usual purple and black checkerboard in SFM itself (as well as being ridiculously small for some reason I haven't been able to determine). Been trying to suss out what's gone wrong for me here, seems like the model isn't loading the textures like it should, but I'm fairly sure the textures are in the right place and named correctly, at least if the Crowbar info on the model is to be believed. (SFM seems to show the textures being sought in two locations, one of which appears to be nested within the other folders like some weird Matryoshka doll of folder hierarchies...)
So, in short, I'm kind of stumped here. If you have any knowledge on building and porting custom characters into SFM, or know someone who has done so, please get in touch with me about this! It's kinda frustrating trying to figure out what the problem is when you can't find the info you need or even figure out what info you have. I know I've done SOMETHING wrong here but I can't figure out WHAT it is.
SFM problems aside, I have been enjoying making stuff for VRChat too, though I've still plenty to learn there. In fact, with how much I've been enjoying 3d work of late, I've been pondering opening up for 3d character commissions on a limited basis! Still need to work out what pricing to go with and who might be interested in such work, but it is something I'm considering!
While the former is a fairly straightforward process for me to do, the latter is proving to be much more difficult to pull off...textures not loading, models being too complex, hard to find documentation or help with it, or making sense of it...right now I'm trying to bring this character model ( http://puu.sh/GP4O3/07ea01883e.jpg ) into SFM, but I'm getting strange results, like the model being outright invisible in Crowbar's model viewer, and just showing up as the usual purple and black checkerboard in SFM itself (as well as being ridiculously small for some reason I haven't been able to determine). Been trying to suss out what's gone wrong for me here, seems like the model isn't loading the textures like it should, but I'm fairly sure the textures are in the right place and named correctly, at least if the Crowbar info on the model is to be believed. (SFM seems to show the textures being sought in two locations, one of which appears to be nested within the other folders like some weird Matryoshka doll of folder hierarchies...)
So, in short, I'm kind of stumped here. If you have any knowledge on building and porting custom characters into SFM, or know someone who has done so, please get in touch with me about this! It's kinda frustrating trying to figure out what the problem is when you can't find the info you need or even figure out what info you have. I know I've done SOMETHING wrong here but I can't figure out WHAT it is.
SFM problems aside, I have been enjoying making stuff for VRChat too, though I've still plenty to learn there. In fact, with how much I've been enjoying 3d work of late, I've been pondering opening up for 3d character commissions on a limited basis! Still need to work out what pricing to go with and who might be interested in such work, but it is something I'm considering!
I also was curious, if you're building for VRChat, that mean you have an HMD? I've got a Rift S myself.
Very good at what he dose and seems willing to help.