Originally posted by Zappy:

As you would have to edit the taunt animations in the first place anyway, you could simply move the weapon entirely off-screen (like thousands of units below the ground or something).

as i said your methods that you are saying are Either on or off (Boolean Expression) not recorded based on time which is what i need could you show me a gif so i can understand what your trying to say

Originally posted by Zappy:

so for something like a sword, you could have a bone for the bottom of the handle, two or three bones for the sides of the handle, and a last bone at the tip of the blade, which you then weight-paint to look okay when you pull the bones close together.

same thing (Boolean Expression) not recorded based on time since i need the sword to appear back on the last frame this is off topic but weight painting is horrible if i were you i would stop that it's more time consuming and gets annoying with the types of brushes and things it's just messy use the weight sliders it changes it in real time and you can set weights with just sliding as you can see here http://puu.sh/t0tuV/f65debe831.png

This is serious because the sword will go through most tf2 taunts i need to make it invisble my original plan was to scale the sword to 0 on all taunts but according to you guys smd tools doesn't support scaling (That's bullshit) could someone please walk me through on how i can get the sword to be invisible for all tf2 taunt animations scaling is the only method i can think of atm

Originally posted by Zappy:

considering people who would find a use for bone scaling could easily find work-arounds (such as using multiple bones to stretch out a body part).

What do you mean stretch out body part using mutliple bones that doesn't record based on time like keyframes that's just the same as just scaling an area of the model which doesn't record its either on or off here's an example in what should occur in the model viewer imagine this cube as the custom character basically this needs to be shown in the model viewer not just the location and rotation https://gyazo.com/55005eccecbb0ed05ba78469c1cf569d based on what you guys have said so far i come to conclusion it's not possible and the gif example i showed is alot easier then doing all that flex driver qc nerd stuff just to add scale keyframes/animation also does editing the source of smd tools help maybe re write it to support scale i know a friend that does python maybe can figure it out or there's an easier way?

Blender source tools Blender works fine with the scale animation why did they disable it i didn't get a valid answer you just said it wasn't programmed that way. Well why would they program only location and rotation and not scale did they just assume people didn't use scale i mean i'm pretty sure alot of people here wants their animation to have some kind of scaling. I come to this conclusion i'm gonna have to go through that boneflexdriver stuff anyone here know how to do that stuff please walk me througgh i'd appreciate that or add me so we can chat thanks.

Originally posted by Zappy:

You could also try making many different bones for the same body area, and just stretch them out apart from each other to simulate a single bone growing, but this may be weird to work with.

no thats stupid no thanks as for the flex driver i don't know how to do all that stuff i only worked with blender. I'm very disapointed in this source tools things ima figure out something thanks though

Originally posted by xDShot™:

The Source Engine itself doesn't support bone scaling in animations. What exactly you're misunderstanding?

You might try using flex animation if you can figure it though...

Why is it like that is my question? as i said scaling is really useful in animation it's really used alot i mean why would they disable this i look at this like a bug tbh? With all that being said what else can i do to make scaling animations work for source engine/TF2

You serious? That's pathetic honestly they should fix that scaling is really important in animation field you sure there's nothing in blender for me to do to fix this? the animation plays fine but i think there's something extra i need to do i can't figure it out atm

Hello guys So i have a custom animation in which a sword grow's small to big before it was just the regular sword no scaling keyframes as soon as i add any type of scale keyframes i get this error when exporting the animation http://puu.sh/sZecw/b21319aefb.png why is this happening only to scale keyframes location and rotation keyframes work fine. Are we only allowed to make animations with location and rotation if so thats kinda pathetic honestly. I hope there's a fix for this if anyone knows please let me know thanks