Half Life 2 Max - Source

Showster

Another game engine question, I've found an abundance of tutorials regarding props / weapons input into the hl2 engine. Does anyone know of any tutorials / workflows that involve character studio / bones system in 3d max?

I've tried :- 3dbuzz, wiki, wonderboy, cgtalk and a few other sites.

Slum

I know Sean McBride (He used to go by Neogenesis, but with a dash more leet) had a Source character setup tutorial somewhere.

It might have been on the Source Wiki.

Edit: Here we go. http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Creating_Characters_with_3dstudiomax_part_1

Needles

That tutorial wont help Cannonfodders tools dont work anymore, he stoped updating them... youre gonna have to use Valves turorials and learn their compile tools/method(urg manually write Qc files ftl)...Good luck with that ~.~.

Seems valve completely ignored the fact that most game modders use 3dsmax and they went to bed with the now defunct Xsimod tools so all their tutorials only cover that process.

Campaignjunkie

What about this?

http://www.mangledpoly.com/hl2tools/

tomdon

Cannonfodders smd import and export tools still work fine. Just make the qc by hand without using his studio compiler.

Incomitatum

This helped -me- out a ton. Thanks guys. We are making a mod for Half-Life 2 as well.

-Andrew B. Chason

GuranGa

There is a other good site to get props in game it helped for me http://www.mixerman3d.com/site/ look in the tutorial section there you have a video compile walkthrough...
and you have great downloads that makes the compiling a bit easyer