Half-Life Model Viewer++
(Redirected from Half-Life Model Viewer Plus Plus)
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Type | Third Party Tool |
Developers | ficool2 |
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Half-Life Model Viewer++ (
HLMV++) 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++ contains many fixes to long-standing HLMV issues, as well as many new features, some of which were ported over from
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's HLMV.
HLMV++ currently supports the following branches of the Source Engine:
Team Fortress 2
- 64-bit Team Fortress 2 is also supported with a test build being available in the Discord server.
Left 4 Dead 2
Garry's Mod
Source 2013 Singleplayer
Source 2013 Multiplayer
Contents
Features
- HLMV++ runs at 240 fps, most noticeable with a 144hz monitor.
- MVScript support, ported from CS:GO's HLMV.
- Live VMT materials editing, ported from CS:GO's HLMV.
- Ability to change picmip, antialias and anistropic settings without needing to modify the
dxsupport.cfg
file to do so. Options are now available via the Render tab of the control panel. - Loading and rendering particle effects that can be attached to bones via the new Particles tab on the control panel.
- Showing/hiding the bottom-third control panel.
- Options > Show/Hide Control Panel
- A reworked Flexes control 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 is possible via editing registry keys.
- Saving a screenshot with or without an automatically generated alpha channel.
- Screenshots (and video frames) were initially saved as TGAs until the Garry's Mod build and Version 6 of the Team Fortress 2 build, where they are now saved as PNGs.
- A new Make Video option that exports multiple PNG frames to create animated GIFs/APNGs/VTFs.
- There is also a "transparent" option that will make all exported frames have an automatically generated alpha channel.
- Added volume slider for sounds.
- Added aspect ratio correction.
- This makes the model render correctly regardless of window size. Can be toggled off for old behavior.
- A new cosmetic item model browser that parses the contents of the
items_game.txt
file. (only in)
- Asset mounting from
mount.cfg
. (only in)
- Material list now shows texture name beside missing materials.
- Shadows now work without ground being required.
- Added
SetCameraFOV
andSetCameraAspectCorrection
MVScript commands. - Added support for loading 2D skyboxes as the background of the 3D render area.
- HDR skyboxes are supported as well as of the most recent (January 2024) version.
- The .mvscript system can also access this option with the following key:
SetSkybox sky
- The
sky
param works with sky names such assky_tf2
.
- The
- Added support for
Refract
materials. - Ability to create and place up to 4 independent light sources and customize each light source's type (point, directional or spot), cone, color and ambient color.
- Left 4 Dead 2 build only allows up to 2 light sources, due to limitations in the Left 4 Dead engine branch.
- The .mvscript system can also access these lighting options with the following commands:
SetLightType index i
index
param accepts the following values:- 0: Disabled
- 1: Point
- 2: Directional
- 3: Spot
SetLightPosition x y z i
SetLightAngles x y z i
SetLightColor r g b i
SetLightCone inner outer i
- The
i
parameter is for specifying which of the potential 4 light sources you want to control, from 0 to 3.
- The
SetAmbientColor r g b
- Added support for loading animation-only models as primary models. Formerly, trying to load an animation-only model would just result in an error popup.
- An example of how this could be used would be loading up
tf\models\weapons\c_models\c_demo_animations.mdl
as the primary model, then loading uptf\models\weapons\c_models\c_medic_arms.mdl
as a submodel so the Demoman's first person animations would use the Medic's arms model instead of the Demoman's arms.
- An example of how this could be used would be loading up
- Added
SetFlexes
MVScript command. Flexes also get saved in the session file. - Restored the hitbox editing functionality that was accidentally removed early on in the project's life.
- Added bodygroup and skin switching for submodels.
Bugs
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steamapps/common/Left 4 Dead 2/bin
folder has been reported to result in "Unable to find gameinfo.txt" errors.
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-game "Path"
Example:
"D:\Programme\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\bin\hlmvplusplus.exe" -game "D:\Programme\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2"
In case you added a custom content folder via Gameinfo, you may want to load that folder, instead of the default ".../Left 4 Dead 2/left4dead2" in the shortcut's -game path, else the "(Steam) Load Model" button cannot read your new models.
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Fixes
- Fixed the Make Screenshot option not working.
- Fixed the FOV slider being inaccurate.
- Fixed a bug where the Material Proxies checkbox state was not being refreshed correctly.
- Fixed a display scaling bug.
- 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.
- Fixed rapid flashing when using Make Screenshot/Video.
- Fixed light type name being cut off.
- Fixed background color and ground color buttons not working.
- Fixed Reset Lights button not resetting light type and selected light.
- Fixed ground color never being used (bug from stock HLMV).
- Fixed .mvscript screenshot filenames with more than 128 characters being truncated.
- Fixed flexes not working on materials with transparency.
- Fixed submodels persisting when loading other models.
- Fixed .mvscript SetLightColor and SetAmbientColor (pitch black issue).
- Fixed .mvscript SetLightCone not saving correctly.
- Fixed Highlight Hitbox option in Bones tab not working.
- Fixed crash if skybox texture was missing a side VMT.
- Fixed toggle control panel not correctly calculating panel size after re-enabling.
- Fixed crashes with certain MVScript commands if no model was loaded.
Screenshots
External links
- HLMV++ - official GameBanana mirror
- HLMV++ Twitter
- HLMV++ Discord
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