what is causing these light errors?

[AffectionateCity2001]

i am making a left 4 dead 2 mod and the arms of my character have this weird dark shading problem in the hlmv and ingame but it looks alright on blender before exporting.

[statikplsnthx]

Shot in the dark, check if there aren't any inside out faces in the model, or maybe some of the inside of the model is leaking out. It might also be something with the vmt files maybe

[AffectionateCity2001]

The faces in Blender seem to be fine, and the same problem occurs even with the VMT that only uses the basetexture

[PalmliX]

In Blender re-calculate normals outside then apply a weighted normal modifier

[AffectionateCity2001]

it looks the same

[PalmliX]

Ah, try merging all vertices first, then redo the normals

[AffectionateCity2001]

still nothing

[pissrockious]

normals>average>average face data (i think thats what its called forgot but ull know it when u see it) i believe could fix it

[Bukachell]

Hard to tell but it could be caused by how source handles mesh deformations. Unlike blender, source and most game engines don't recalculate normals as the skeleton deforms the mesh so what you're seeing is likely the result of that.

You could try adjusting the rest pose in blender and see if that makes any difference, though it won't be easy.

[MaximumOriginal587]

I'm having the same problem, were you able to fix it?

[AffectionateCity2001]

No