Half-Life Model Viewer++

Half-Life Model Viewer++
Type	Third Party Tool
Developers	ficool2
Engine	Source
Platforms	Windows

A screenshot of HLMV++'s UI.

Half-Life Model Viewer++ is a community-made modification of Half-Life Model Viewer for Source that provides an updated, feature-rich version of the model viewer. HLMV++ is made by ficool2, the same programmer that created Hammer++, and the two are cross-compatible.

HLMV++ currently supports the following branches of the Source Engine:

• Team Fortress 2
  • Various Team Fortress 2 Source mods such as Team Fortress 2 Classic, Pre-Fortress 2 and Open Fortress can make use of the Team Fortress 2 build by following the steps outlined in this guide. This will no longer be necessary once the Source 2013 Multiplayer build is released.
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Garry's Mod (test build available here)

Support for other engines/branches is planned. Current new builds being worked on may include:

• Portal 2
• Source 2013 Multiplayer

Features

Note:A more indepth list of features can be found here.

• Mvscript support.
• Live VMT materials editing.
• Ability to change picmip, antialias and anistropic settings without needing to modify the dxsupport.cfg file to do so.
• Loading and rendering particle effects that can be attached to bones.
• Showing/hiding the bottom-third tabs pane.
• A reworked Flexes panel with pagination.
  • This feature also reworks how the Flexes panel functions, removing the usage of dropdown boxes which subsequently fixes an age-old bug where changing a targeted flex via a dropdown could sometimes revert all the flex changes you had made up to that point.
• Facial flex saving via registry keys.
• Saving a screenshot with or without an automatically generated alpha channel.
  • When saving a transparent screenshot of a model with an attached particle effect, the automatic generation of the alpha channel will fail to properly capture anything that uses $additive materials. This is due to the specific algorithm used to generate the screenshot.
  • Another minor issue with transparent screenshots is that there will usually always be a couple pixels in the bottom-right hand corner of the image that will need to be manually erased.
• A new Make Video option that exports multiple TGA frames to create animated GIFs/APNGs/VTFs.
• A new cosmetic item model browser that parses the contents of the items_game.txt file. (only in )
• Ability to create and place up to 4 different independent light sources and customize each light source's type (point, directional or spot), cone, color and ambient color. (only in )
  • Lights feature was intended for the Left 4 Dead 2 build as well, but the Left 4 Dead engine branch doesn't seem to be able to support more than 2 light sources without causing HLMV++ to crash.

Bugs

• There seem to be no bugs yet

Fixes

Version 1

• TBA

Version 2

• TBA

Version 3

• TBA

Version 4

• TBA

Version 5

• Fixed .mdls/.mvscripts passed on command line not working. This fixes HLMV++ not working with the "Preview" mode from Crowbar.
• Fixed sounds not playing.
• Fixed crash in BoneWeights view.
• Fixed Reset Lighting also resetting background color.
• Fixed particles not being saved across sessions.

Version 6

• TBA

External links

• HLMV++ - official GitHub repository and binary download
• HLMV++ - official GameBanana download
• HLMV++ Twitter
• HLMV++ Discord