Originally posted by Artfunkel:

Do you have a link for that?

I've found this warning while uploading model:
http://i.imgur.com/HKCRUim.png

At least for models with animations it is true, I'm not shure about all other types of upload...but...it seems that valve wants to remove smd completely (for example, you can not export from source tools models in smd format, you are able to export *obj, *dmx, *fbx) and when Valve released workshop tools there was no smd import at all (smd worked, but was not supported)

Btw, we did tested, and only model with binary 9 and model 22 work in source2 tools now, other DMX versions - fail with "no bones in mesh" error (BUT! Older versions of DMX worked some months ago. Maybe they did something with WSHT?)

FBX fail every time, even FBX converter from Autodesk won't work.

So, yea, as valve said smd will not be supported anymore, they will concentrate on DMX and FBX.

To tell the truth, dmx sometimes fail, where smd win...I personally had no problems with smd in past in comparison to dmx.

But, we will have no alternatives left, valve gives us poor choice: DMX or FBX...fbx - shitty format, nobody likes it because of common fails...and blender + fbx = inconsistency.

I wonder if valve will go towards the OS community and make support of *.dae (which is totally similar to fbx, but it is open and have no issues)

So, this is the news :)
Could you go over dmx and source 2, to find if dmx fully compatable with source2 or not?

Hey, Tom!

Thank you a lot for SMD tool, you are truly the one who make workshop so big.

But tool need some fixes:

1) Split groups while importing objects in blender disappears. I mean, any vertex which lay in exact same position as other - merges in one vertex (this creates problems, when we are using split/smooth groups instead of normal map)

2) Triangulation. It is not really a problem, but sometimes It is good to have quads instead of tris.

3) Also I found new bone "blender_implicit" after exporting mesh with armature. In dota2 we have limitations on bones count, for courier it is 52, so one more bone is really bad for exporting.

p.s. I don't know is this a bug or not, so I put my discussion in "bug reports"