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Description
A character model of Rottytops from the "Shantae" series by WayForward.

Modeled and rigged entirely in Blender. The model's design is most heavily derived/influenced from the game "Shantae and the Pirate's Curse". In-game screenshots and Steam card illustrations were used as a main reference. Contains 3 different skins and multiple facial flexes, both mono and stereo. Also utilizes Source's procedural/"jiggle" bones (has 27 total), and can be used as a ragdoll and playermodel in GMod. The model's skeleton also follows the conventions of a TF2 bipedal character model, and therefore can be used with both rig_biped_simple and Doc/Revzin's puppet script (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles… ).

Please feel free to offer any feedback/suggestions or report any bugs you find with these models. Check the README file included in the downloadable archive for details.

Special Thanks:
Pte Jack whose series of YouTube tutorial videos taught me pretty much everything I now know regarding how models behave and are exported in the Source Engine. I cannot thank him enough.

The Valve Developer Wiki.

WayForward for making a great game.

Includes:
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_alive_player.mdl
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_arms.mdl
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_player.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottys_glasses.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottys_pen.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottytops.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottytops_alive.mdl

Notes:
In order for this model to work within SFM, files and directories must be copied/moved into the game folder maintaining the same file hierarchy as in this folder. Any game folder could be used, though I personally use "usermod". Note that if you download and place these files within a game folder in addition to subscribing to the workshop, one version will take precedence over the other depending on how the installed mods/games are ordered. By default, "usermod" overrides the "workshop" directory.

Unless you are simply subscribing to a Garry's Mod addon file obtained via the workshop, for this to work within Garry's Mod, you will need to subscribe to Rubat's Extended Spawnmenu script in the Steam GMod Workshop (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles… ). Then place the files and directories in a custom folder (say named "Rottytops") within the "garrysmod\addons\" folder, maintaining the same file hierarchy (this includes files associated with the playermodels as well). The models can then be found and spawned from the "Legacy Addons" section in the spawn menu (Q) when launching GMod. Check the workshop page for additional details.

I did not create the normal map for the hair. This was copied from the files for an EqG model originally modeled by user creatorofpony.deviantart.com/. All other textures were created by me using GIMP.

Known bugs:
Not a bug with the model per se but with SFM. The jiggle/procedural bones will not bake properly when the model is spawned in a current session. Instead of baking the dynamic animations, the process will bake the jiggle bones' default positions. For the baking to properly work, you must save the session after spawning the model, close the current SFM session, and then reopen it. Baking the procedural animations will then work properly now that the model is saved within the SFM session.

Description
A character model of Rottytops from the "Shantae" series by WayForward.

Modeled and rigged entirely in Blender. The model's design is most heavily derived/influenced from the game "Shantae and the Pirate's Curse". In-game screenshots and Steam card illustrations were used as a main reference. Contains 3 different skins and multiple facial flexes, both mono and stereo. Also utilizes Source's procedural/"jiggle" bones (has 27 total), and can be used as a ragdoll and playermodel in GMod. The model's skeleton also follows the conventions of a TF2 bipedal character model, and therefore can be used with both rig_biped_simple and Doc/Revzin's puppet script (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles… ).

Please feel free to offer any feedback/suggestions or report any bugs you find with these models. Check the README file included in the downloadable archive for details.

Special Thanks:
Pte Jack whose series of YouTube tutorial videos taught me pretty much everything I now know regarding how models behave and are exported in the Source Engine. I cannot thank him enough.

The Valve Developer Wiki.

WayForward for making a great game.

Includes:
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_alive_player.mdl
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_arms.mdl
player\Radioactive_DK\rottytops_player.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottys_glasses.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottys_pen.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottytops.mdl
Radioactive_DK\rottytops_alive.mdl

Notes:
In order for this model to work within SFM, files and directories must be copied/moved into the game folder maintaining the same file hierarchy as in this folder. Any game folder could be used, though I personally use "usermod". Note that if you download and place these files within a game folder in addition to subscribing to the workshop, one version will take precedence over the other depending on how the installed mods/games are ordered. By default, "usermod" overrides the "workshop" directory.

Unless you are simply subscribing to a Garry's Mod addon file obtained via the workshop, for this to work within Garry's Mod, you will need to subscribe to Rubat's Extended Spawnmenu script in the Steam GMod Workshop (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles… ). Then place the files and directories in a custom folder (say named "Rottytops") within the "garrysmod\addons\" folder, maintaining the same file hierarchy (this includes files associated with the playermodels as well). The models can then be found and spawned from the "Legacy Addons" section in the spawn menu (Q) when launching GMod. Check the workshop page for additional details.

I did not create the normal map for the hair. This was copied from the files for an EqG model originally modeled by user creatorofpony.deviantart.com/. All other textures were created by me using GIMP.

Known bugs:
Not a bug with the model per se but with SFM. The jiggle/procedural bones will not bake properly when the model is spawned in a current session. Instead of baking the dynamic animations, the process will bake the jiggle bones' default positions. For the baking to properly work, you must save the session after spawning the model, close the current SFM session, and then reopen it. Baking the procedural animations will then work properly now that the model is saved within the SFM session.