Exporting OBJ from DeleD to Sandbox

[DreamBliss]

OK so I am on Windows using the latest builds of each program. I have folders in the Sandbox/packages/model directory. Inside each folder is a tris.obj, a skin.jpg, and a obj.cfg.

Here are the settings I have for the DeleD OBJ Export plugin:

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Filename
Texture Folder
Scale

Triangulate
- None
- Non-convex Polygons
- All

Normals
- None
- Face
- Smooth
- Crease Angle, Angle
Material File (checkbox)
Tex Coords (checkbox)

Considering these settings, what should I use to guarantee import into Sandbox? Here is my obj.cfg:

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mdlscale 100

mdlambient 0

mdlspec -1

mdlcollide 1

I enter the game, go to Edit Mode, press E, adjust position to look down, type this at the console window after pressing the tilde key:

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mmodel +nonenone
mmodel +noneface
mmodel +nonesmooth
mmodel +noneca
mmodel +ncpnone
mmodel +ncpface
mmodel +ncpsmooth
mmodel +ncpca
mmodel +apnone
mmodel +apsmooth
mmodel +apface
mmodel +apca

That was my last experiment with this tonight. Then I press F3, go to Entities, click on Brushes or Models or whatever it is, scroll way down, and click on my mesh, which is just an icon of a box or something. In the game window a small wireframe box appears with sparkly stuff inside and I get an error message saying ,"...could not open package..."

Like I said, weird thing was that I did get the model in once. It was super huge. I scaled it wrong. Fixed that. the mesh is now 32 step height, 128 step width, something like 160 step length. So it should be importing correctly.

Any help you can give me would be appreciated. I have to go to sleep now. Dozing off in my chair...
- DreamBliss

[chocolatepie33]

I'm not real sure about the deal with DeleD, but so far it sounds like it's your configuration and packaging that may be an issue. Ideally, you should have each model (and related files) within its own folder, e.g. a hammer model would be packages/models/hammer. Your obj file would look like this (keeping up the hammer example)

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objload tris.obj
objskin skin.png

...        (mdl configuration commands)

Your mmodel command use is rather confusing; if you have one model, you would just use /mmodel hammer (to follow our example) to load it. Alternatively you can add that code to the bottom of default-models.cfg (or something like that; it's in the main/data folder) to have the model load every time you have a new map.

[DreamBliss]

I must have got some misinformation somewhere. OK, doing as you suggest right now (can't wait!)

Anticipation...
- DreamBliss

UPDATE!
THAT WORKED! Awesome! Thank you!!! Finally was able to import a mesh. Texture didn't work, trying a .jpg now. But I can experiment here and tool around the forums or Google. Finally got a mesh to import - very cool!

Thank you very much for your help chocolatepie33!