Stuck between MOD tool and HL2

[Michaela]

I'm trying to get a model that was rigged and exported from Mod tool, into HL2. I've seen a low quality youtube video of someone importing a skeleton to replace the police in the hl2 game, so when you play the game there is a bunch of skeletons running around. But I'm stuck, I can't seem to locate my HL2 Files, nor do I know what .TXT files to make or what to write in them. Any help will be appreciated.

[Michaela]

also I tried installing the Valve Source Tools into XSI 5.0 but

I get this.

'INFO : ValveSource HelperBoneObject XSILoadPlugin called
'INFO : 4034 - Loaded scene was created with build number: 5.0.2005.1013 - compatibility version: 500
OpenScene "C:\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Data\XSI_SAMPLES\Scenes\\kilr athi_WalkCycle.scn", , True
InspectPreferences
SetValue "preferences.animation.tangentlen", 5
SaveScene
'ERROR : 2271 - This command does not exist: SMDExport2
'ERROR : 2272 - Cannot add menu item:
'<item: Export SMD...>
'<path: c:\users\Esper05\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Addons\ValveSou rce\Application\Plugins\ValveSourceTools.js>
'
'ERROR : 2271 - This command does not exist: SMDImport
'ERROR : 2272 - Cannot add menu item:
'<item: Import SMD...>
'<path: c:\users\Esper05\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Addons\ValveSou rce\Application\Plugins\ValveSourceTools.js>
'
'ERROR : 2271 - This command does not exist: VMFImport
'ERROR : 2272 - Cannot add menu item:
'<item: Import VMF...>
'<path: c:\users\Esper05\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Addons\ValveSou rce\Application\Plugins\ValveSourceTools.js>
'
'ERROR : 2271 - This command does not exist: VMFExport
'ERROR : 2272 - Cannot add menu item:
'<item: Export VMF...>
'<path: c:\users\Esper05\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Addons\ValveSou rce\Application\Plugins\ValveSourceTools.js>
'
'ERROR : 2271 - This command does not exist: ShowConcaveEdges
'ERROR : 2272 - Cannot add menu item:
'<item: Show Concave Edges>
'<path: c:\users\Esper05\Softimage\XSI_5.0\Addons\ValveSou rce\Application\Plugins\ValveSourceTools.js>
'
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[thiago]

Isn't this addon supposed to be installed in Modtool?
Don't know if it works on XSI 5.0... but modtool is free and is made of XSI6.
Supposedly it will be better than 5.

As for the HL files.. I have no idea where they are. But did you search your computer for those file types?

[dwigfor]

It's kinda weird how Valve stores the files on your computer. Essentially, it creates something like a partition. There's a program that let's you extract the contents, but I forget what it's called. I think it might be on the valve wiki somewhere. Then you need to decompile the model, texture, etc. That's another program (I think). I think I figured that out by searching for tf2 model decompile, or something like that....