Half-Life Tutorials

Making a 3rd Person Model for Half-Life - by Rat

 

Close the Qped program as we are done with it. Select "File->New" in Milkshape 3D to clear out the model and joints that may interfere with importing of the op4 knife model. Select "Tools->Half-Life->Decompile Normal HL MDL file..." in the menu selections. Look up the "p_knife.mdl" in the "p_knife" folder on your hard drive.Click "open" to get the dialog box as in Figure 1.3. You want to have all the check boxes checked as in Figure 1.3.

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Figure 1.3 Decompiling the op4 p_knife.mdl

Open the "p_knife_Reference.smd" by selecting the "File->Import->Half-Life SMD..." and you will want to have all the check boxes checked as in Figure 1.4 in the import dialog box.

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Figure 1.4 Importing the op4 p_knife.mdl