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I am completely unsure on where to ask this, and I have tried to get hold of some modellers but no reply from them yet. Basically I am trying to bring models from Portal and HL2 into CSGO. I have tried decompressing the VPK files and directly taking the model files, but to no avail as the physics works for the model, however the actual model doesn't appear (the entity is invisible, but still responds to damage, and physics). From what I have read on forums, I have sorta picked up that CSGO updated the way models work a while ago, and so the old way they developed models no longer works. Any insight onto what I am trying to accomplish would be gratefully appreciated!

I have uploaded the portal turret model beneath. I believe there is a way to recompile the model but I don't own any of the software to do so, neither have the knowledge to do so.

From what I remember, you simply need to replace the first "," with a "0" in the magic code of the mdl files.

Also, I think this thread would fit better into General Discussion as it doesn't relate to any SP codes.

Thanks for the reply L'In20cible, however I don't mean to be stupid but could you give me an example of what you mean by this?

L'In20Cible wrote:From what I remember, you simply need to replace the first "," with a "0" in the magic code of the mdl files.

When I open the .mdl file in Sublime it shows what I am guessing is the data in hexi code.

Example beneath:

I have just opened the file in Notepad and I see what you meant by the "," being replaced by "0". This is now causing a physics error:

Did you try with a prop_physics_override?

Yep, have been testing with that from day 1, hehe. I realized though that I had done the replacement wrong above, because I used a text editor that seemed to not notice half the code for mdl files. Basically it had saved the file again but only at 5 bytes because it didn't see the rest of the text. However I have now tested it by replacing the "," with a "0" and ensured the file is the same size as before. This time the server crashes entirely, nothing in the logs.

Predz wrote:Yep, have been testing with that from day 1, hehe. I realized though that I had done the replacement wrong above, because I used a text editor that seemed to not notice half the code for mdl files. Basically it had saved the file again but only at 5 bytes because it didn't see the rest of the text. However I have now tested it by replacing the "," with a "0" and ensured the file is the same size as before. This time the server crashes entirely, nothing in the logs.

Notepad++ works out of the box for basic hex editing, but you have packages that enable Sublime to do this too.

Predz wrote:I have just opened the file in Notepad and I see what you meant by the "," being replaced by "0". This is now causing a physics error:

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ERROR!: Can't create physics object for models/predz/turret_01.mdl

Not sure if I did it right, but just props I simply recompiled and recompiled as a prop_dynamic, I had the same issue with prop_physics too from other games. Or the prop_physics would break and then stop spawning when trying other physics types