Extracting & viewing 'mdl' files Created 19 years ago2004-12-16 21:21:12 UTC by bentbobb

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

HLMV 1.22 with the SDK is the only mdl viewer for HL2, afaik. Try reinstalling it and updating drivers?

As for the second, it's just practise

Lycka till with the drawings.

I've re-installed the whole sourceSDK and my drivers are latest available. All MDL viewers still either crash or lock up. When they crash the diologue box says something about a divide error.