Crowbar VS SourceIO

To edit the textures, you can use Paint.NET (https://www.getpaint.net/), and for decompiling and compiling, use Crowbar (https://github.com/ZeqMacaw/Crowbar/releases).

If you use the Crowbar tool you can extract files from VPK's.

TF2 and Portal 2 are different branches of Source. the models don't always work well when just dragging and dropping. crowbar can decompile and recompile entire folders of models at once

You will need VTFEdit for the textures, GCFScape for extracting, Crowbar for decompiling the model and Blender Source Tools for importing the model.

Crowbar is the go to compiler helper https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CrowbarTool

it a program/modding, where you can create custom models. but i do recom learn how to use it, heres the official group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CrowbarTool

Most models from CS:GO are in Left 4 Dead 2 so I recommend looking for them there first because the conversion is easier; for de/recompiling use Crowbar

Use GCFScape to export the .mdl from the CS:GO VPK (in the "csgo" root directory) and use Crowbar to decompile into .smd. You can then use Blender Source Tools to open the files in Blender, where they can be exported to .obj or .fbx if necessary.

Hi, I am trying to import NMRiH models and animation into blender, I tried Blender Source Tool SourceIO and plumberr, but none of them works. If these tools can't do this job, is there any other tool can help me?

I extract models and textures from the SFM and GMod workshops using this website and this Add-on to import them into Blender.

Then use this Blender addon: https://github.com/REDxEYE/SourceIO

The path for the model is models/extras/info_speech.mdl. If you'd like to use it outside of Source, you can extract the model with Crowbar and convert to a more usable format like .fbx through Blender with SourceIO.

Add this addon to Blender and click import, source engine, mdl, then navigate to your workshop items.

There is an online resource of Yakuza models already ported by someone named Tension, just use SourceIO to import them to Blender and start editing/adjusting them for your own use from there. Note, disable the BlenderVertexShader in the import settings as they're not used by the models and are insanely complex, slowing Blender down.

A great use of your skills would be to bring SFMs animation tools like the motion editor and Source's content library to something more ubiquitous like Blender. We already have great importing tools for Source's content thanks to REDxEYE's SourceIO tools: https://github.com/REDxEYE/SourceIO/

IMO though, better to block out in Hammer then import it into blender using the free plugin https://github.com/REDxEYE/SourceIO

Option A. Use the SourceIO Blender Plugin to directly import GoldSrc .mdl into Blender