Can't get QC to compile in any engine and god damn why does porting to source suck so much?

[MilkBiscuit]

Okay, so I have a chair model with a high and low poly version, along with a phys model.

The QC looks like this

$cd "C:\Users\MilkBiscuit\Documents\Models\chair\Smd"
$modelname	"MilkBiscuit\Chair.mdl" 
$body mybody	"ChairHighPoly.smd"
$staticprop
$surfaceprop	carpet
$cdmaterials	"MilkBiscuit\Tex"

$lod 50
{
      replacemodel "ChairHighPoly.smd" "ChairLowPoly.smd"
}

$sequence idle	"ChairHighPoly.smd" // no animation wanted, so re-using the reference mesh

$collisionmodel	"ChairPhys.smd" { $concave }

I keep getting an error that I don't have a GameInfo.txt. I've tried using Ep2 and Left 4 Dead 2 and neither will compile. Did I just majorly fuck up the QC, or do I need to fix something in the files? I know I have a GameInfo.txt for both of those games so I have no clue. Maybe my Google-Fu powers are dwindling or something.

[Theuaredead]

use the half-life 2/bin/ folder to compile.

[editline]31st July 2014[/editline]

also porting to source doesn't suck (only when valve breaks the tools) your just getting angry over a bad config

[MilkBiscuit]

[QUOTE=uaredead2020;45548556]use the half-life 2/bin/ folder to compile.

[editline]31st July 2014[/editline]

also porting to source doesn't suck (only when valve breaks the tools) your just getting angry over a bad config[/QUOTE]

I'm still getting the same error :/

[IMG]http://puu.sh/ayiYd/01ff5e8c30.png[/IMG]

I get this error when I try to use the SDK as well...

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UwNk8db.png[/IMG]

I'm going to be honest, I don't understand any of this. It's just so annoying going from something like UE4 to Source. Importing into UE4 is drag and drop, while Source you have to jump through a bunch of hoops just to get a model into the engine. Am I just missing something? Am I just an idiot?

[Theuaredead]

is half-life 2 installed, if so, have you ever started it.

[MilkBiscuit]

[QUOTE=uaredead2020;45550109]is half-life 2 installed, if so, have you ever started it.[/QUOTE]

Yes, and yes. I actually went through a mini-crisis when I created this thread because I forgot if I had or not.

[Theuaredead]

try using GUIStudioMDL and set it to read your Half-Life 2/bin folder.

[MilkBiscuit]

[QUOTE=uaredead2020;45550237]try using GUIStudioMDL and set it to read your Half-Life 2/bin folder.[/QUOTE]

gameconfig.txt cannot be found in this folder (I checked, it's fucking there.)

[Theuaredead]

[QUOTE=MilkBiscuit;45550294]gameconfig.txt cannot be found in this folder (I checked, it's fucking there.)[/QUOTE]

be sure your not going to Half-life 2/hl2/bin by mistake

[MilkBiscuit]

[QUOTE=uaredead2020;45550300]be sure your not going to Half-life 2/hl2/bin by mistake[/QUOTE]

I wasn't, but now I've run into a different problem.

So I got GUIStudioMDL to stop telling me that gameconfig.txt isn't there. Now it tells me that it 'Can't find steam app user info'.

Is this a result of the Steampipe update?

Edit: Nevermind, I got off my ass and googled the answer to this problem. I'll see if it works.

Edit2: Okay, everything works. Thanks so much man.