SD Scientist's Remake addon

Half-Life will downscale everything that exceed 512x512.
If you use 640x480, the model will compile, however the renderer will downscale it in-game to 512x384... thus you will lose quality.

If you have to use different sizes than 512x512, you better stick to:

512x384
512:256
512x128

for the rest you can do the math.

Btw: for those that are wondering, no 1024x255 will result in 512x128 by the renderer.. and 768x384.. will result in 512x256.

Better use more textures, than not supported sizes...

Not sure about how renderer can downscale textures. It's first time I heard something like that (any proofs?). The problem is not the model won't compile (it solely depends on used compiler, the defaut one will not be able to compile texture over 512, so you have to use custom compiler, as well if you want to compile large textures in one file instead of splitting it in model+modelT.mdl), the problem if the texture size is over limits (307200 pixels) game will not start with that model at all. I used such textures and never noticed that I lose details... Of course, texture splitting is better option if possible.

Nevermind i fixed it, it was my Half-Life

Small question, with what program do u edit and animate the models?

Yes,you see this is my first ported mod and I'm still a novice when it comes to modding so I'm sure there are some scripts that dont make sense specifically in the qc, but my port works perfectly on my game. Porting it was really hard on my part cause I've encountered issues with materials count. So i decided to learn some blender and decreased the materials, merge some textures and edited the uv maps. Also added mouth smd's to make tge mouth move and ragdolls because its half life source.lol. However i decided not to include some bodygroups that uses chrome textures, because it adds to the material count again and i dont know to edit the vmt files for the chrome textures aside from barney's helmet.I must say, your models looks better in hls even without the chrome texture.

I can send you the port and you can distribute it if you want, just give me some credit for the port. but i need to reconvert the vtf files first cause i didnt noticed some got resized. Anyways I'm trying to port some hgrunt models as well, but I'm encountering some issue that I've been trying to figure out for a few days now. You see whenever i try to port some hgrunt models I'm experiencing an issue wherein the grunt plays another animation in between his firing animation and noticed that animation to be the first animation sequence in the qc.So when he's firing his gun he walks after in the same place without moving. its really weird, i tried to change the order of the first animation sequence and then noticed that animation to play instead of the walking animation. whatever hgrunt models i tried to port this is whats happening and then tried to decompile the hgrunt model that works well ingame to see the issue and compile again without editing to test it, and now it got broken and has the same issue. Do you think its a problem with crowbar? do you know whats causing this and perhaps know how to fix it? thanks