Converting models animations into functional player models

[Slemo]

I'm guessing this has probably been posted many times before, but does anyone have a good in-depth guide for rigging the skeleton for player animations?

[inaba]

You could just decompile the standard player model and stitch the reference skeleton to your model.
Then you can include the animations (since they are just bones)?

I might have misunderstood.
Is it rigging in the 3d software?

[Slemo]

I'm not fully sure myself, I'm just looking how to take a ragdoll that otherwise isn't a player model, and rig its animations so it can be a functional player model (not in t-pose).

[inaba]

[QUOTE=Slemo;40514840]I'm not fully sure myself, I'm just looking how to take a ragdoll that otherwise isn't a player model, and rig its animations so it can be a functional player model (not in t-pose).[/QUOTE]

If you have the model rigged with a player skeleton and include the animations with [URL="https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$includemodel"]$includemodel "pathToAnimations"[/URL], it should work.

[editline]3rd May 2013[/editline]

At least the animations should.