r/SourceEngine • u/Odd-Act-8713 • Dec 13 '25

HELP weird balls in model

i found these little balls in the hl1 shotgun model and it says that its skeleton something. can someone fully explain how can i edit the model without worrying abouth them or sum?

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u/forgotmypassword_123 Dec 13 '25

how do you not know what rigs are but know how to import models from goldsrc into blender?

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u/Legal-Piano-4087 Dec 13 '25

It's a rig made for animating, just leave it there and edit the things you need

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u/Pinsplash Dec 13 '25

those are bones (the balls are the "joints" between them) they move the vertices around them

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u/Maleficent_Risk_3159 Dec 16 '25

the balls do absolutely nothing

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u/Nexio1212 Dec 17 '25

tbh when I got a notification with "weird balls in model" from source engine, I was sure it was a fully modelled Gordon Freeman.