Well the only way I've managed to get to do it is, use alyx and replace her sequences with my own. Its a hack of some sorts, obviously with a coder it should be pretty easy to add your own in . You can use animations that are already in the engine, but you need a pretty decent skeleton which can be motion mapped / you'll…
http://www.3dshowreel.com/photo/view.php?img=e0258b73ca234958887c0f68527d81d7 I got my stuff into model viewer, I have some custom animations made. Can anyone shed any light on how I could get these ingame without coding? I've done some hacks here and there with the QC file.
XSI Mod Tool is your friend. It is the officially supported tool for Half Life 2 models and animations. I'm honestly not sure if anything else will work. (although Maya might have an exporter that will get the job done) As for packaging your model, just zip it up. Winzip will do it, although these days you can just use…