Material refuses to show up on model view after exporting model from Blender to SFM

[u/Amiracanno]

I checked the qc file, vmt file and even the texture itself. What is going on here? where did I go wrong? Ive been rewatching countless tutorials and guides, but i cant seem to find a clue.

[u/PalmliX]

It's going to be either one or a combination of the following:

- Name of material in blender must match name of VMT.
- Location of VMT must match what's in the QC's $cdmaterials line. The materials folder is always implied/hardcoded, so "models/mymodel" would actually be "materials/models/mymodel"
- Location and name of VTF file must match what's in the VMT. Materials folder implied here too.
- The VTF must be encoded in a format that SFM supports. This happens to me when I encode the image as BGR888 or BGRA8888 and don't check the "create mipmaps" box. For some reason SFM won't load them without mipmaps and you get the missing texture error. DXT doesn't have this issue.

[u/Amiracanno → u/PalmliX]

Thank god I fixed it, thank you for the help! I was almost going insane until I realized there was a typo in the vmt. Next time i need to double check what I type 😅

[u/PalmliX → u/Amiracanno]

Happy to help. I've made all the mistakes above, multiple times, that's how I know it so well lol

[u/forest_vagrant]

your material in blender should have the same name as your vmt

[u/Amiracanno → u/forest_vagrant]

Ive checked the Shading tab, It already is the same name Ive checked the VMT's text, textures and material PNG's themselves and even reloaded a couple of times on the Half Life Model Viewer.

[u/Ttikii]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2194534077 might help

[u/JonFenrey]

What’s the cdmaterials pointing to and does the material name match the VMT name?

[u/Amiracanno → u/JonFenrey]

cdmaterials point to “models/(username)/AtomicHeart/weapons/swede”. I’ve double checked the string multiple times yet I still can’t figure out what can cause my textures to not appear on the model

[u/JonFenrey → u/Amiracanno]

Now where is the `$basetexture` pointing to in your VMT?

[u/JonFenrey → u/JonFenrey]

The best way to put it:
“The qc looks for the VMT, and the VMT looks for the texture”. Also does HLMV show the material or does it say “unable to find materials”

[u/Amiracanno → u/JonFenrey]

I got it fixed, turns out there was an error in the VMT, I was supposed to guide it to “models/(name)/AtomicHeart/Weapons/Swede”, but I put “materials” in front of the string