Help:Model Viewer

The Half-Life Model Viewer (HLMV) is a program used to view

Setup

Graphics card settings

For NVIDIA cards, open the "NVIDIA Control Panel" and navigate to "Manage 3D settings" or similar. ATI-specifics here. Add a program-specific setting for hlmv.exe (file location is below):

\Steam\steamapps\unleashed26\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin\hlmv.exe

Ensure that the following settings are enabled:

• Anti-aliasing set to "override" and on highest setting possible
• Texture filtering quality on highest setting possible

dxsupport.cfg

The Model Viewer also pulls settings from the config file 'dxsupport.cfg'. If the graphics card settings above do not work, then this method should still force the Viewer to output with high settings.

1. Navigate to the directory in the section above.
2. Open up dxsupport.cfg in a text editor of your choice. If you do not have this file, create it with this content.
3. Find your graphics card within that file, if it is not listed go to the bottom and use ATI Unknown or NVidia Unknown depending on your card.
4. Add or modify the following lines in dxsupport.cfg - within the section for your graphics card, and save it.

"DxLevel"	"99"
"ConVar.mat_antialias"	"8"
"ConVar.mat_forceaniso"	"8"
"ConVar.mat_picmip"	"-10"

5. Open up a model and ensure there is no anti-aliasing or other quality defects. If there is it's likely your graphics card is not able to render images of high enough quality.

Models

• Todo: cover \players\hwm\ models folder.

Locations

The three main folders of the \Weapons\ folder are:

• w_models – holds world models for the standard weapons.
• v_models – holds view models for the standard weapons.
• c_models – holds models for all other newer weapons (viewmodel and world model share the same model)

Most models have standard names but others have vague or confusing names, so some are listed below. Alternatively, all model file paths can be found by searching "items_game.txt" (\tf\scripts\items\items_game.txt).

• Eyelander: c_claymore

See also

• Template:Painted variants/Tutorial – tutorial on taking screenshots of painted images.

External links

• Model Viewer on the Valve Developer Community

Tools

• GCFScape – tool to extract files out of the game's GCF files
• Crafty – multi-purpose tool to view models, textures, and other Source engine files. Also provides a material and model browser to allow for easier file extracting via thumbnail preview.
• Category:Third Party Tools on the Valve Developer Community