Got out of town earlier in what I can now call yesterday. It felt nice to get out of town, admiring the trees and wildlife as we drove along. Other than that the temperature was cool enough today that I focused a little on some SFM stuff, and ran into a small problem.
Years ago I made this picture of Geralt in SFM for a friend of mine, and ever since then we all (along with her) decided this was one of her “personas” so to speak in our small circle jerk of friends. Naturally I like to include whatever characters a person wants to be if their voice happens to end up in one of my videos, the only exceptions are asshats, and Bong (and Bong is not an asshat, we just choose for him). I was looking to add her favorite Geralt model into my project today only to have SFM crash instantly. I tried loading other models that were associated (it was a model pack) and they all crashed. I tested this on both Windows and Linux and the results were evenly matched. I’ve tried other Geralt models but each one I’ve run across seems better for posing rather than animating. I’ve tried the SFM Workshop, SFM Lab, and even looking on the Gmod workshop for something to extract but… nope. Unless we find some workaround to get the model(s) to load properly again, I’ll have to animate one of her other alter egos. I’m still puzzled as to why these models would crash the entire program, given that SFM hasn’t had any updates in years I can’t see what the general cause would be.