Animated prop in HL2

TorQue[MoD]

Ok, so its obviously apparent that I'm trying to learn how to make prop models for HL2 if you saw my last post.
This time I'm trying to get a prop model with animations working. I managed to get the model to show up in the editor fine, but the animation sequence isn't working. I exported the scene a second time and chose skeleltal animation for the smd option so it should work fine, so I'm guessing the problem is in my QC file somewhere.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>$modelname brutal/props/fight_scene.mdl

$cdmaterials models/brutal/props
$staticprop
$surfaceprop "stone"
$scale 1.0

$body studio "F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_ref"

$sequence idle "F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_ref" loop fps 30
$sequence fight "F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_anim" loop fps 30

$collisionmodel "F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_ref.smd" {
$Mass 100
$concave
}
</pre><hr />

The only other thing I can think of is if there's some sort of limit to the number of frames the sequence can have. The entire sequence is 1680 frames.

Any ideas on what I might need to do to fix this?

Thanks again!

CheeseOnToast

I'm not an environment guy, but maybe try $propdynamic instead of $staticprop?

Szark

Try commenting out the "$staticprop" line in the qc

TorQue[MoD]

Well, at first I was thinking I was a total idiot for not noticing that one myself (teach me to copy and paste qc files) but without the $staticprop command it won't compile. It gets as far as referencing the smds and then just stops. Soon as I put it back in, it will compile again.

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G:\Steam\steamapps\torquemod\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin>studiomdl F:\Brutal\Models\SM
Ds\props\fight_scene.qc
qdir: "f:\brutal\models\smds\props\"
gamedir: "g:\steam\steamapps\torquemod\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\"
g_path: "fight_scene"
Working on "fight_scene.qc"
SMD MODEL fight_scene_ref.smd
SMD MODEL F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_ref.smd
SMD MODEL F:/Brutal/Models/SMDs/props/fight_scene_anim.smd

G:\Steam\steamapps\torquemod\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin>

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And $propdynamic isn't a command you can use.
Any ideas now?

moose

are there other dynamic props you can copy/paste from?

try reducing frame count? i got nuthin

TorQue[MoD]

I actually found out that the problem was with two many bones in the scene, so I had to separate it into pieces and do it that way. Apparently there's no frame limit to speak of cause I got one of the models working with 1640 frames. (thought it was 1680, but it was 1640)

So now I just have to link each of the pieces to a root bone and export it like that. Should be fairly easy.

Thanks guys!

Oh, and the $staticprop was causing the problem