Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone had insight to this new problem. For whatever reason, when I try to hook up a new model, everything seems fine until I get to selecting the texture. I select it in the VMT, but when I click okay it pops up:

Material VMT1 missing cloak effect
(See standard VMT for example)

Then it seems to not acknowledge the file has been chosen. I tried to track down the file where my other materials are, and the VMT seems not to have been written. I can see my older VMT files, and I can read them, but nothing for the new model.

Worse yet, I can't even hook up my old files, they get the same error. My SMD looks just like any other SMD and I didn't get an error from exporting in blender. I just can't load the tga, or any other old, previously working workshop file.

I blew away my TF2 and SDK programs and redownloaded them, taking care to run them and verify before trying to load in the workshop. Same error.

I noticed in the last few weeks we had a huge 350meg update. Something go south? Are there other locations it writes the VMT besides the material folder? Is the importer broken?

Thank you for any help, this is quite maddening.