- Dec 9, 2009
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I sincerely apologise if this is in the wrong forum; admins, move it if you have to.
I understand it may belong in some other thread (or some other site) but after days of exhaustive and utterly fruitless searching across the internet, I have found nothing that will let me do what I initially assumed would be a very simple task.
I want to model hats. Technically I'm able to make a hat right now, I have Maya 2010 fully installed and functional. But making hats is very difficult if I don't have the character I want to model a hat for (in this case, Pyro) in the scene as a frame of reference. It would be totally unprofessional to send a model to Valve that doesn't even fit the character model, and I assume they'd just delete it rather than go to the effort of 'fixing' it themselves.
Hence, I want to convert a Source .mdl to something Maya will read, like an .obj file.
The Valve Developer wiki has me dead in my tracks from square one, telling me I need a version of Maya before 2010. Does that already mean all hope is lost??
People keep talking about scripts that are in the SourceSDK folder that let you import models into every version of maya but mine. I downloaded and (I assume) correctly installed MDLDecompiler and StudioCompiler anyway, and they don't even work because apparently they can't read the DLL properly.
I'm completely stonewalled and all I want to do is import a basic Pyro model. I'm shocked that something so simple could be so utterly out of my control. If anyone knows anything about any way whatsoever to alleviate this problem, please share because I'm desperate.
Thanks in advance.
I understand it may belong in some other thread (or some other site) but after days of exhaustive and utterly fruitless searching across the internet, I have found nothing that will let me do what I initially assumed would be a very simple task.
I want to model hats. Technically I'm able to make a hat right now, I have Maya 2010 fully installed and functional. But making hats is very difficult if I don't have the character I want to model a hat for (in this case, Pyro) in the scene as a frame of reference. It would be totally unprofessional to send a model to Valve that doesn't even fit the character model, and I assume they'd just delete it rather than go to the effort of 'fixing' it themselves.
Hence, I want to convert a Source .mdl to something Maya will read, like an .obj file.
The Valve Developer wiki has me dead in my tracks from square one, telling me I need a version of Maya before 2010. Does that already mean all hope is lost??
People keep talking about scripts that are in the SourceSDK folder that let you import models into every version of maya but mine. I downloaded and (I assume) correctly installed MDLDecompiler and StudioCompiler anyway, and they don't even work because apparently they can't read the DLL properly.
I'm completely stonewalled and all I want to do is import a basic Pyro model. I'm shocked that something so simple could be so utterly out of my control. If anyone knows anything about any way whatsoever to alleviate this problem, please share because I'm desperate.
Thanks in advance.