Frump : set centimeters when importing , and meters when exporting and it should be 1:1 ; I wasted 1 weekend on this issue allso with my skywrath set :D
Try to open your .SMD file in txt format, there should be something like trianglesmodels/heroes/dragon_knight/dragon_wp_color.tga 2 -41.999104 36.635361 -31.957273 -0.473662 -0.588266 0.655430 0.649300 0.151600 1 1 1.000000 2 -35.374077 25.845049 -39.566998 0.370728 -0.839050 -0.398190 0.806100 0.011700 1 1 1.000000 2…
Alpha channel of the diffuse texture. Check the .vmt to see if alphatest 1 is present:$alphatest 1 It looks like ember spirit does support alpha test. It's only a 1 bit alpha though -- no partial transparency.