I'm not a modder but wish to extract and view the mdl files for various enemies in HL2 (combine gunship, strider, etc) in order to create drawings and plans to use in making actual physical models (getting sick of tanks and airplanes).
The half life model viewer from 'source sdk' crashes...as does every other mdl or model viewer I've downloaded. The only success I've had is in extracting a few mdl's from a couple of gcf files with 'GCFScape'.
1) Is there a utility that works, or am I doing something horribly wrong?
2) How have you folks made all those great HL1 maps with such crappy tools?
Bob