
Importing The SFM ModelĮxtract the zip somewhere. If you want to follow along you can grab the POD 042 model from SFMlab. It is an ideal model because it has some simple rigging, and a few materials that should be a great way to start out. In this tutorial I am going to use POD 042 from Nier Automata to show you how to import an SFM model. I use the archive version because I can place it wherever I like, I keep it in a tools folder with my other 3D modelling related files. The Blender plugin cannot pull the textures so we will use VTFEdit to get them.

We will also need a tool to extract the textures for our SFM model.


RED圎YE has an excellent blender add-on called SourceIO which will do all of the stuff we are about to use VTFEdit for, but it only currently works (as far as I know) with Blender 2.8 and I want to keep this guide about 2.79 until 2.8 is released.
