Need help with skin families!

[benjaminh96]

Hey guys, I need some help really bad.
I just made a hat, and the skin families are not working.
whenever I view it in model viewer alone, I change the skin and it reverts to the original texture.
I don't know if it is a syntax error or what... help me please!
here is my .qc

[ $cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\benhenry96\team fortress 2\tf\models\player\items\pyro\decompiled\Clown_hat"
$modelname "player\items\pyro\attendant.mdl"
$model "Body" "attendant.dmx.smd"
$cdmaterials "models\player\items\pyro\"
$texturegroup skinfamilies
{
{ "clown_hat.vmt" }
{ "clown_hatblue.vmt" }
}

$hboxset "default"
$hbox 0 "bip_head" -4.193 -11.071 -3.872 4.347 0.000 5.724
// Model uses material "models/player/items/pyro/attendant.vmt"
$surfaceprop "cloth"
$illumposition 3.725 0.077 74.025
$sequence idle "idle" loop fps 30.00
$collisionmodel "phymodel.smd"
{
$mass 21.7
$inertia 1.00
$damping 0.00
$rotdamping 0.00
}

]
Thanks.

[Henry Townshend]

Does clown_hatblue.vmt point to clown_hatblue.vtf?

[Ilwrath]

Sometimes HLMV doesn't want to load TF2 skingroups, you should try it ingame.

[benjaminh96]

ok, I tried it in-game and it doesn't work.
Henry, I looked and looked a million time, and no, it doesn't.

[Ilwrath]

[QUOTE=benjaminh96;26282122]ok, I tried it in-game and it doesn't work.
Henry, I looked and looked a million time, and no, it doesn't.[/QUOTE]

Can you post the .vmt's of the both textures? Also, you don't need to have the ".vmt" in the end when defining skinfamilies.

[benjaminh96]

ok, here is the VMT for the red (first skin, default.)
"VertexlitGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "models\player\items\pyro/clown_hat.vtf"
"$bumpmap" "models\player\items\pyro/clown_hat_normal.vtf"

"$phong" "1"
"$phongexponent" "15"
"$phongboost" ".1"
"$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[2 1 5]"
// "$halflambert" "1"
"$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"

// Rim lighting parameters
"$rimlight" "1"
"$rimlightexponent" "4"
"$rimlightboost" "2"

// Cloaking
"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"

"Proxies"
{
"weapon_invis"
{
}
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedtexturevar" "$detail"
"animatedtextureframenumvar" "$detailframe"
"animatedtextureframerate" 30
}
"BurnLevel"
{
"resultVar" "$detailblendfactor"
}
"YellowLevel"
{
"resultVar" "$yellow"
}
"Equals"
{
"srcVar1" "$yellow"
"resultVar" "$color2"
}

}
}

And for the blue:

"VertexlitGeneric"
{
"$baseTexture" "models\player\items\pyro/clown_hat_blue.vtf"
"$bumpmap" "models\player\items\pyro/clown_hat_normal.vtf"

"$phong" "1"
"$phongexponent" "15"
"$phongboost" ".1"
"$lightwarptexture" "models\lightwarps\weapon_lightwarp"
"$phongfresnelranges" "[2 1 5]"
// "$halflambert" "1"
"$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"

// Rim lighting parameters
"$rimlight" "1"
"$rimlightexponent" "4"
"$rimlightboost" "2"

// Cloaking
"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"

"Proxies"
{
"weapon_invis"
{
}
"AnimatedTexture"
{
"animatedtexturevar" "$detail"
"animatedtextureframenumvar" "$detailframe"
"animatedtextureframerate" 30
}
"BurnLevel"
{
"resultVar" "$detailblendfactor"
}
"YellowLevel"
{
"resultVar" "$yellow"
}
"Equals"
{
"srcVar1" "$yellow"
"resultVar" "$color2"
}

}
}

Thanks guys.

[editline]25th November 2010[/editline]

this is such a pain.