Itemtest woes

[dr_shenanigans]

don't have any other place to ask this here so... :blink:

I've been working on this, running it through the source SDK itemtest as a test run when I noticed some odd things, I wondered if anyone else has been experiencing these problems.

#1. the spy seems to be missing in the class selection. it hasn't really affected how i get the model, but it's been.. quite irritating having to stuff a spy knife in the sniper folder.

#2. when getting to the materials part, in place of what seems to be the melee choice for the texture, it says INVALID.

#3.I compiled the weapon... and the knife is stuck to the spy's crotch... what.

 

[Seba]

Itemtest is absolute shit, at least for now. Don't use it if you can help it. Compile manually instead.

 

[dr_shenanigans]

f***nutmountain.txt

ok manual compiling...

I got studiocompile, my QC, VMT and crap setup...

and it spat this out. :cursing:

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/(steamname)/sourcesdk/bin/ep1/bin/studiomdl.exe -game "" "C:\Users\(myname)\Desktop\modeling\Decompiled\rival_knife.qc"
Unable to find gameinfo.txt. Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir
2. 
Run vconfig to specify which game you're working on.
3. Add -game <path> on the command 
line where <path> is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.
Unable to find gameinfo.txt. 
Solutions:

1. Read http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/faq.html#NoGameDir
2. Run vconfig 
to specify which game you're working on.
3. Add -game <path> on the command line 
where <path> is the directory that gameinfo.txt is in.



StudioMDL Thread complete

which annoying the hell out of me because i got gameinfo.txt in my vconfig and my friggin bin folder, and vconfig the program is whining about not finding steam.dll.

 

[Ravidge]

Try having source SDK running while you run the compile.

 

[dr_shenanigans]

Try having source SDK running while you run the compile.

no dice, exact same result.

EDIT: nevermind it was dumb little me's fault, didn't set the game directory, but now i got this error.

ERROR: cannot find bone weapon_bone for bbox

 

[dr_shenanigans]

ok, sorry for the double post. anyways, i found out that the "weapon_bone" was well, the bone needed for the spy to hold the knife.

anyways i got a blender-related problem now, and I don't know if i'll find this out before you get to me, but i'll say it anyway...

I imported a decompiled knife into blender and tuns out it's an armature with a mesh inside of it. I need to know how to add meshes to armatures so I can finally compile the knife i wanna use.