Compiling a custom PC model with DDLullu's MDL Formatter

Hey, ilex! I commented on the moddb article but it might be better to reach out here, I was following along and everything was going as expected but, I ended up with a weird situation.

Compile succeeded. But when I look at it in the model viewer it errors.

When I load it in game, my model is replaced with a model of 3d green text saying "Wrong Version" with a path to the model displayed as a world space debug message.

My theory is that the Formatter didn't run? Or didn't run correctly?
I'm not sure how to check since I don't think it appears in the log file as it's a post process.
I was wondering if there is a way to manually run the formatter on a compiled model.
Not sure if I could maybe make a .bat file and what commands I'd need to run etc.

Any thoughts on this?

Bonus weird thing:
When I compiled it using the Bloodlines and NOT the Alien Swarm setup, it compiled successfully, displayed in the model viewer successfully, but when loaded up in game, hard crashed to desktop upon level load.

Fun times.

Thanks for reading/your input!

Wow!! sorry for dont reading nothing else, the pic stuns me, it compile for bloodlines?!?!?!?

Just a quick FYI post but Blender Source tools only works with the latest Blender 4.1 @ developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Blender_Source_Tools and previous versions have been discontinued.

Weird thing is I changed from our SDK studiomdl to aliens swarms version and no CTD but I do get what was reported earlier in thread about wrong version.

I can interact with Jeanette no problem(swapped/renamed juliet files yadayada) as I used her skeleton and testing in the Asylum. Click on wrong version still got her dialogue and can roll with it. This is something in nothing I believe, but the camera goes on a random look  around(not important) when interacting haha.


and settings. Remember I was initially use our SDK studiomdl but changed the path to reflect. There was also a change in file size with the latter being larger.

I compiled the edited Damsel model I made for the guide with both her own skeleton and Jeanette's. Other than the expected issues with Damsel not fitting on Jeanette's skeleton, she compiles fine and shows up fine in-game.

I've been trying to break things on purpose on my end, and the model either shows up right in-game or doesn't compile at all. Does the issue lie with other people's setup? Their *.smd? Their *.qc file? I'm stumped.