[2.41] emp_midbridge missing models

On midbridge (fresh install), when in spectate close to the ground there are lots of 'errors' scattered all over the map, in open spaces. Judging from the spacing and amount of them im guessing this is probably some sort of bush model.

Youzy confirmed this also.

Pics (from youzy, I saw the same):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36125543/Empires screenies/2013-03-24_00002.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36125543/Empires screenies/2013-03-24_00001.jpg

 

I too have this issue.

 

Don't have the source files for latest midbridge, I'm not even sure what the model is suppose to be

 

I have to start gathering the VMFs, I've been really lazy with that.

 

im pretty sure its bushes

 

yes but WHICH bushes cannots be founds?

Not that I really tried to find out. I was just going for the lazy way of looking at the vmf

 

Is there a console command to find out? Or is that only for materials?

 

Even with the VMF i don't think you could find out which model is giving this error. I decompiled the map to have a look and there are no bushes at all, so they must be detail props automatically generated and placed by the grass material. To know what model it's referring to, you'd need the detail.vbsp file used to compile the map.

At least for detail sprites the information is stored in the detail.vbsp, i'm assuming the same holds true for detail props.

Edit: i assumed you guys checked the console before posting here, but ... i guess no one ever did :D

From the console after loading midbridge:

and from the valve wiki:

I fear you'll have to remove this bush from the detail prop list before recompiling the map. If you change the files to fix it for this map (which might not even work) you break the model in all other maps using it

 

The model bigbush1a_detail.mdl actually appears to be using the wrong texture. If it is calling for a vertex lit texture is must be using treebranch_bush01a.vmt and not treebranch_bush01a_unlit.vmt

bigbush1a.mdl should be the only one using treebranch_bush01a.vmt

 

@idle idle studio treeBranch_oak01a_unlit treeBranch01a_unlit treeBranch_oak01a treeBranch01a Common\Nature\

I opened the .mdl in a simple text thingy, and my guess is it uses 4 skins, two of which are lit while the other two are unlit. But as the valvewiki sais, all skins have to be unlit.

Removing the references to the lit materials just made the map crash on load btw. I'm guessing a modeler should be able to rebuild it or something with just the 2 unlit skins? Even then i fear the map will still require a recompile.

 

http://mukavat.tontut.fi/stuff/midbridge/

If you need anything else tell so

 

A house with 2 bedrooms and a decent size garden please

 

Thanks Pastori. Hopefully we can fix this asap.

 

model should just need to be recompiled without the treebranch_bush01a.vmt and treeBranch_oak01a.vmt

 

FUCKING
FINALLY
FIXED THIS SHIT

Silk, you had the right idea, the problem is that you can't just edit binary files willy-nilly because the size needs to be the EXACT SAME, byte for byte. So you were right in that you could just deleted those other skins, but it had to get replaced with an equal number of 0's for every character taken out.