Ikchains that are here to fuck up your day.

Garry's Mod modelling
#1

Today i tried to make a playermodel.
And i wanted ikchains because without them revolver reload animation is broken af
But every time i put ikchains in the qc
The legs were twisted 70.7 degrees to the left. on the hips.
And then i tried doing different things like:

  • twist the legs -70.7 degrees left in blender (did not work)
  • disable the hands ikchains (results in crash)
  • disable all ikchains and re-enable them (yup, it didn’t do shit)
  • set all values to 0.000 (instead of 0.707) (yep, they were STILL at 70.7 degress) ($ikchain rfoot ValveBiped.Bip01_R_Foot knee 0.000 0.000 0.000)
  • remove bodygroups
  • reinstall crowbar
  • reinstall gmod
  • reinstall windows
  • purge hard drive
  • compile with source sdk 2013 (no difference here)
  • compile with sfm (didnt even work, just crashed)
  • compile with tf2 (same as sdk)
  • use another working model’s qc
  • use a qc of earlier (working) version of the model with ikchains (yes they fucked up for no reason after i did not touch them) (only modified some finger bones because they weren’t straight)
  • write a new qc
  • steal a qc off the workshop
  • use kleiner’s qc
  • iklocks
  • autoplayiklocks
  • hiring 2 employees who also tried numerous things
  • 41 other things or the same things repeated that i don’t remember anymore

and then after 65 compilations, 10 hours, a kick from TFA’s Discord, a bluescreen, and a 4chan thread
i came here.
hoping that somebody would finally help me.

TL;DR: Why do ikchains make legs twist left?

P.S.: and after the 66th compilation the right hand went left as well (i’ve just rewritten the qc line)

EDIT: some screenshots:

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#2

Hmm. Well that’s basically exactly how I set up my QC except I don’t use the quotation marks. I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with it.

In that case I’d guess it’s not because of the QC, and my first thought would be to reset/apply the object transforms in the 3D application and see if that fixes it. That always seems to be the cause of a bunch of problems.

Good luck, man

Edit: Oh and here’s one of my QCs if you want to give it a try. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1o7izjlj88jwf8f/count_chocula.qc?dl=0

I don’t do an iklock on the ragdoll sequence, so that might be it too.

#3

Just tried applying all transforms in Blender, sadly did nothing…
Also removed iklock from the ragdoll sequence as in “why would it help if it activates on the ragdoll?”

#4

Ah that’s a shame. Well if you still can’t figure it out, add me on Steam and I’ll help you mess around with it a bit. I’m sure we can figure it out if most everyone else isn’t running into the problem.