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Exporting CAT and Biped Models

Posted on Jul 19, 2013 | Last Updated Dec 10, 2014

Export your CAT or Biped rig from 3ds Max into the Source Game Engine with Wall Worm.

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cat, biped, animation, character, bip, skin, animated model

Exporting Correct Smoothing on Models

Understanding Smoothing Groups and Explicit Normals
Posted on Dec 8, 2017 | Last Updated Apr 10, 2023

Discussion on smoothing groups and explicit normals and how they relate to Source.

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smoothing, normals, smoothing groups, smooth

Wall Worm 4, 3ds Max 2020 and Black Mesa News

Posted on May 6, 2019 | Last Updated May 6, 2019

Wall Worm 4.0 Released and other news about 3ds Max.

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wall worm, news, GDC, game developer conference, 3ds Max, black mesa

Porting Levels into Source

General Overview of Converting Scenes that Were Not Designed with Source in Mind
Posted on May 14, 2016 | Last Updated Dec 30, 2020

Overview on porting scenes and levels from other sources.

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port, convert, scenes, games, levels

Converting Displacements to Models

Posted on Oct 25, 2019 | Last Updated Oct 26, 2019

Steps on converting a collection of displacements to props.

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displacements, convert, props, mdl, render to texture

Importing Models

Posted on Mar 12, 2017 | Last Updated Mar 12, 2017

Articles and documents related to importing model assets into 3ds Max.

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Archive of Wall Worm Version 3 Changelog

Archive of Changelog early 2017 to early 2019
Posted on Jan 24, 2020 | Last Updated Jan 24, 2020

Archive of Wall Worm Version 3.X changelog in early 2017 through early 2019.

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2017, 2018, 2019

Hull Helper

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated May 1, 2023

Hull Helper is a simple UI to speed up making hulls from complex models.

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hull, quick hull

Normal Tools

Posted on Aug 6, 2014 | Last Updated Apr 22, 2020

Normal Tools are a collection of utilities and functions for quickly editing your Normals in 3ds Max.

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normals, edit normals, smoothing, hard edge, script, commercial

Creating Entities

Posted on Oct 27, 2016 | Last Updated Oct 27, 2016

Details on what objects automatically export as entities in a VMF and how to manually create other entities.

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entity, assign, tie to entity