I've been working on ENIGMA, of course. However, along with that, I've been playing with 3D.

I wanna give a nice presentation before I ever release R4, and I was looking for just the model to help me with that.

Dave gave me the model, all right. But it was in a funky format, dx90.vtx.

I didn't see it as a problem, but boy was it.

No one on the internet seems to know what a vtx file is.

A lot of things point to valve's shit, and a couple things point all over the place.

Here's what I gathered:

Garry's Mod may work with these files

Anim8or exports a file with the same extension

Marzipan can load the file that anim8or exports

Maybe blender supports it

Of course, Blender doesn't support it. Besides, blender is the biggest piece of shit program I've ever dealt with. Sure, Dave'll argue that because he's so enamored with the thing and with fucking Ogre, but you know what? How can you argue that?

Go on, open Blender, go to file->open. Tell me what you see.

I'm not entirely sure what I see, because it's a nasty mesh of the worst shades of gray ever.

But you know what I don't see? Number one, how about a button that says "Desktop"? You know, so I don't have to type THE ENTIRE GODDAMN PATH NAME INTO YOUR HORRIBLE ASS TEXT INPUT. It doesn't even select anything when you double click in it. What the hell API did they use to make that mother?

But that's okay, just a little typing. I navigate my way to my desktop, and double click the file. Oh, you gotta hit open, because if they made it any less inconvenient, I'd have ONE LESS THING to bitch about.

Either way, that's only two inconveniences in two minutes.

The file of course did not open successfully, since it was an unknown format. So I go back to try another format I thought might contain it. (DirectX: *.x)

So I go back to file->open…

Guess what? It isn't on the desktop anymore! It's back to C:\Documents and Settings\HP_OWNER\BUM\FUCK\EGYPT\Blender\

So I navigate to the desktop the same way I did before: Carefully select "BUM\FUCK\EGYPT\Blender\" and replace it with "Desktop\". Unsurprisingly, that didn't work either.

Back to import, this time I'ma try RAW. (Open and import are the same, so I'll call it whatever I want. <_< )

This time, not only is it STILL not on the desktop, but it's in some fucked up folder directly on the C drive.

NOW I'm pissed. I have to type up the full fucking filename, or pick five folders out of large lists of them.

COME ON. You have a damn import function for fucking everything (except what I need), but you can't pull off a file selection dialog? <_________<

I guess what I'm trying to say is, does anyone know how to open dx90.vtx files?