My new sig!

[joeboris -TR-]

Finally got hold of TF2, and I think it's absolutely excellent! So I made me a sig to celebrate!

 

[Baron Rojo]

very cool my friend = )

 

[EDITThor]

How'd you get them to work in Garry's mod?!

 

[Volcom]

yeah how did u get them on gmod

 

[joeboris -TR-]

EDIT: There is an update concerning where to put the material and model folders on the next page! Read it before completing this tutorial, or it won't work!

First, I have had a couple of problems with this method: The eyes with the models who have eyes are not 100%, but ok. The other is that I've noticed that GMod has trouble with at least Donner after I did this. I've been using Flatgrass exclusively as I've been working on this, I tried Donner, but the program closed.. I don't know if it's down to the models, though... Just so you're aware of this first...

You'll need the following applications (search google for them, they're all free)
GCFScape
FixVTF
VTFedit

Well, first you have to install GCFScape, a program which can identify and unpack compiled game files. In your Steamapps folder, you will find the .GCF, or Game Cache Files for all your Steam games. Find these two folders with GCFScape:
-Team Fortress 2 Materials
-Team Fortress 2 Content
...extracting these two folders:
-Team Fortress 2 Materials: /tf/materials/models/player
-Team Fortress 2 Content: /tf/models/player

Once you've found the "player" folders, right click and extract them.

OK! Now you have the files for the models and the materials. What now?

Well, tf2 is running on an updated source engine, which garrys mod hasn't got yet. Therefor we have to strip the things that are made for the new engine away. We do that with a program called FixVTF. Once you have that up and running, all you have to do is drag and drop the player-folder into the FixVTF .exe-file (yeah, I know.. Pretty weird) and it fixes them!

So that's done! What's next?

Go to your /valve/steam/steamapps/yourname/garrysmod/garrysmod/models and put the player-folder (or whatever you want to rename it to) from TF2 Content in there.
Now, the next step i'm not sure about, I've done all of the following three, and have been to lazy to find out which one made it work:
1. Go to your /valve/steam/steamapps/yourname/garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/ and put the folders of each individual character in there.
2. Go to your /valve/steam/steamapps/yourname/garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/models and put the folders of each individual character in there.
3. Go to your /valve/steam/steamapps/yourname/garrysmod/garrysmod/materials/models and put the entire "player"-folder in there.

Now, you have to code the spawn-menu for Gmod. Put the following code between the --- and the --- into notepad:
---
"1"
{
"Information"
{
"name" "Team Fortress 2" "1"
}
"Entries"
{
"1"
{
"model" "models//player/demo.mdl"
}
"2"
{
"model" "models//player/engineer.mdl"
}
"3"
{
"model" "models//player/heavy.mdl"
}
"4"
{
"model" "models//player/medic.mdl"
}
"5"
{
"model" "models//player/pyro.mdl"
}
"6"
{
"model" "models//player/scout.mdl"
}
"7"
{
"model" "models//player/sniper.mdl"
}
"8"
{
"model" "models//player/soldier.mdl"
}
"9"
{
"model" "models//player/spy.mdl"
}

}
---
Save it as "TF2 Ragdolls" in the /valve/steam/steamapps/yourname/garrysmod/settings/spawnlist directory

Now the models should be ready to go! Except for one problem, which I haven't been able to solve satisfactory; the eyes of the characters.... with eyes... are problematic... they're just holes.... I kinda solved this by opening the material files for l_eyeball and r_eyeball in VTFedit and removing everything except


"Eyes_dx8"
{
"$basetexture" "models/player/shared/dxlevel80/eyeball_l"
"$iris" "models/player/shared/dxlevel80/iris_blue_l"
}

Now, when you start Gmod and open the spawnmenu, it will have to generate the icons for the menu... this takes a short while, but the program seems to hang while it does it... It doesn't. Then, once you've spawned a model, it's face will be totally messed up. Go to the faceposer, and drag everything to zero... TF2 faces are posed in a totally different way to other Source models, so you cant use the preorder buttons. Also, the bar for expression scale is off, and should be on +/- 0. You can play around with this and find out where exactly...

What I did was turn "Happy1" on max, then carefully adjust the expression bar till I thought it was right... then you've set the default... It is also possible that the eyeballs are looking into the models head or something, and won't appear until you use the eye poser...

WHEW! Well, I hope you're able to extract some useful information for this... the tools are very useful, especially if you're mapping with Hammer and stuff (VTFedit in particular)... Just google the tools to find where to DL them... They're all free...

Cheers,
joeboris

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

Your awesome JOE!!!, but I have a couple of problems: All I spawned was ERRORs, so I searched the characters manually, and once I found them and spawned them, I noticed they were invisible, i knew there was something there because I can pick it up and throw it around, seeing and impact when it hits the ground and such, so I think im missing the materials for something, not sure though :\

 

[ned]

Wow very nice, sounds like a lot of work went into it too.

 

[joeboris -TR-]

Hmm. At first, I got the black and ping checkered default material, then I moved the material folders - both the individual characters and the whole player folder - around a bit, and it worked... Did you try all three alternatives for the material folders? You could try running each material folder through FixVTF too.... If not I'm not sure...

 

[Deathscythe]

sweet sig although you spelled Organization wrong but it doesnt matter i like it !!

 

[joeboris -TR-]

LOL, right you are! I'll have to fix that! Thanks for pointing it out!

 

[Deathscythe]

hey do you have xfire i want to ask you about putting the models to gmod

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

[quote1192322699=joeboris]
Hmm. At first, I got the black and ping checkered default material, then I moved the material folders - both the individual characters and the whole player folder - around a bit, and it worked... Did you try all three alternatives for the material folders? You could try running each material folder through FixVTF too.... If not I'm not sure...
[/quote1192322699]

Ive tried the 3 different ways, but ill try just running each materials folder through the FixVTF....and if that dont work, then ill just wait for Garry to update Garry's mod so I can have them

 

[Deathscythe]

im sure soon someone of the http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/ will figure it out i know joe you have but i cant get it to work i wish you could send me your material and models folders or just the player folders and stuff on what you did

 

[Wal-Mart Security]

Ya Joe, could you copy those folders and such and make them downloadable for us? that would be handy

 

[joeboris -TR-]

OK, I redid the whole process to find out where tings got messed up... seems in the confusion of trying and failing the other day, I complicated things more than necessary;

All you need to do is:
-Extract the files (The respective "Player" folders) with GCFScape.
-Put the one with materials through FixVTF.
-Then put the Player folder containing materials here:
Valve\Steam\steamapps\yourname\garrysmod\garrysmod\materials\models
-Put the Player folder containing models here:
Valve\Steam\steamapps\yourname\garrysmod\garrysmod\models
-Paste this into a notepad-file and save as "TF2 Ragdolls" in the garrysmod/settings/spawnlist folder:
"50"
{
"Information"
{
"name" "Team Fortress 2" "1"
}
"Entries"
{
"1"
{
"model" "models//player/demo.mdl"
}
"2"
{
"model" "models//player/engineer.mdl"
}
"3"
{
"model" "models//player/heavy.mdl"
}
"4"
{
"model" "models//player/medic.mdl"
}
"5"
{
"model" "models//player/pyro.mdl"
}
"6"
{
"model" "models//player/scout.mdl"
}
"7"
{
"model" "models//player/sniper.mdl"
}
"8"
{
"model" "models//player/soldier.mdl"
}
"9"
{
"model" "models//player/spy.mdl"
}

}

NOW: If you get this working, and the models appear, of course, their faces will be totally messed up as mentioned earlier, and you'll get an error in console abour l_eyeball ad infinitum... but we'll cross that bridge if we get to it, hehe.. Basically what you need to do is edit the material files as described earlier, but I may have added something too...

That should do it... If it doesn't, I'll upload the files to an FTP for ya! I've been trying to make an easy Addon pack, but not quite managed... So with any luck, if you can't get it working, I've gotten the Addon working by then, hehe...

 

[Deathscythe]

I got the models working as well as guns, guns show p purple though I need that eye fix..
I also can pick weapons that we saw in the trailers like the nailgun the tossable tnt that the demo was going to have i also found a branding iron i wonder who would use that (Engineer)

quick bad pose lol!

 

[joeboris -TR-]

Cool, man!! That looks sweet! I'll have to fix the weapons too... And you can fix the faces with faceposer... Good to see you got it working!! I'll get back to you asap on the eyes...

 

[CroutonsofDeath{RD}]

As much as I hate the medic.. his model is pretty damn awesome. I like this shot
Too bad it's so damn hard to pose

 

[theraineydaze]

could plz give a link 4 the files

 

[Squid56]

Instead of creating a whole new thread, I thought I'd just hi-jack this one

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