Setting up Doors for the Source Engine in Blender?

[Tin Can™]

Requesting any proper resources and tutorials on specifically setting up doors with an animated door handle, simply like the ones you see in Half Life 2 - Google doesn't yield any results other than single bone armature tutorials, which I can't work from

I had a look at the doors from INFRA and noted that they have one bone for the entire door, and a second bone for the handle - but I'm having trouble setting up the armatures in Blender properly.

Using [url=http://gamebanana.com/tuts/11099]this tutorial on bones[/url] I only get so far as only having a single bone for the whole door (since you seemingly can't have two separate bones in the same armature that use two different vertex groups in one object), I need one bone for the door itself and another bone that only controls the vertex group the handle is in, without separating the handle from the object of the door - I don't think that's a good way of doing it when I'm sure theres a way to keep the whole mesh as one object

[TFA]

Assuming everything's already rigged to the root bone:

• Create a second bone for the handle, position it, and parent it to your root door bone.
• Create a second vertex group in your door object, and name it the same as your handle bone.
• Select your object, go into edit mode, select the handle ( 'l' to select linked may help here ), remove it from the door vertex group.
• With the handle still selected, assign it to the second vertex group.
• Exit edit mode, select your armature, and put it into pose mode.
• Enjoy rotating your new door handle!

[Tin Can™]

There's the deal I've already tried unfortunately.
I have the handle in it's own vertex group already, the second bone is parented and moves with the root bone properly, but when rotating the second bone on it's own - it's just the bone that rotates.

The vertex group doesn't actually seem connected to it, I even renamed both entire armatures to share the vertex group's names

[TFA]

If you upload your blend file, I can take a look