Ok, it MUST be the PF Source button he is talking about, got to be.
I will try it agian, but like I said, I dont kow if in the whole thing I am sopposed to make the grass on the terrain, off of it, or what? Do I make a terrain and save it, put it off tot he side somehow?

YEA!!!!! Did it, I made my grass. Now however I noticed that the 3 origanal blades I made off of the terrrain that were used to call forth the blades ON the terrain I can not get rid of, if I deleit them than, yep, you probibly guessed it, they dissapier from the terrain. I am probibly going to go a head and see if I can just put them up ON the terrain, that way there are not way out of the way like that .
NOW, I just need to figure out how to export it to smd, and THAN figure out what to do with the smd so that I can use it in HL2. AND THAN MY FRIENDS!!!!!! OH YES!!!! ITS ON!!!!!......
SO, I have come one step closer to my goal, but still have what seems to me 1,000 more to go.

OK, i lied just a wee little bit. I can not figure out how to add the material he is tlkaing aobut in the last step, he wrote it a little confusing. I also tried to put a bitmap on there , but I must have done something wrong, cause it would not work.
I sved a pic on my desktop from google, and saved it AS a BITMAP file, but when I went to go and drag and drop after putting it into the materials thing, it would not drop, I could drag it, but it would not drop.
All I got was a little circle with a line through it, I suspect that is not normal.

OK, UPDATE, I know, I have been posting ALOT. I did it this time, got a material on the model, but when I go and try to export it to a SMD file it deos not work. Here is the whole thing.....

Writing 35 Node(s)…

* “Terain1”
* “Cone01”
* “Cone02”
* “Cone03”
* “Particle View 01”
* “PF Engine01”
* “PF Source 01”
* “Birth 01”
* “Speed 01”
* “Rotation 01”
* “Render 01”
* “Display 01”
* “Event 01”
* “PF Source 01->Event 01”
* “Position Object 01”
* “Shape Instance 01”
* “Split Amount 01”
* “Event 02”
* “Split Amount 02”
* “Position Object 02”
* “Speed 02”
* “Rotation 02”
* “Shape Instance 02”
* “Display 02”
* “Event 03”
* “Position Object 03”
* “Speed 03”
* “Rotation 03”
* “Shape Instance 03”
* “Display 03”
* “PF Source 01->Event 02”
* “PF Source 01->Event 03”
* “PF Arrow01”
* “PF Arrow02”
* “Material Dynamic 01”

Writing Animation…
* Exporting single reference frame for 35 node(s)

Writing Meshes…
* “Terain1”
WARNING: Material on mesh “Terain1” was neither type Standard or Multi/Sub-Object. Skipping mesh.

* “Cone01”
WARNING: Could not get a material for mesh “Cone01”. Skipping mesh.
Assign a Standard or Multi/Sub-Object type material to it.

* “Cone02”
WARNING: Could not get a material for mesh “Cone02”. Skipping mesh.
Assign a Standard or Multi/Sub-Object type material to it.

* “Cone03”
WARNING: Could not get a material for mesh “Cone03”. Skipping mesh.
Assign a Standard or Multi/Sub-Object type material to it.

* “PF Source 01”
WARNING: Could not initialize bi-normal and tangents data for mesh “PF Source 01”. Skipping mesh.

* “PF Source 01->Event 01”
WARNING: Could not initialize bi-normal and tangents data for mesh “PF Source 01->Event 01”. Skipping mesh.

* “PF Source 01->Event 02”
WARNING: Could not initialize bi-normal and tangents data for mesh “PF Source 01->Event 02”. Skipping mesh.

* “PF Source 01->Event 03”
WARNING: Could not initialize bi-normal and tangents data for mesh “PF Source 01->Event 03”. Skipping mesh.

Done!

Now I dont kow if ANYONE can tell me what I did wrong, seems to be a mesh problim, but how to fix it......I dont know.
If ANYONE can help, I would be thankful. Adn if ther eis anyone who knows how to do wqhat I am doing, if you would like to see my madel in its .max form, I could e-mail it.

And deos NOONE use this program for HL2???

Ok, I think I have been posting a LITTLE to early........I figured it out, and now have my SMD file, now I need to convert it the rest of the way, btu I will not post any problims untell I KNOW I have truely MESSED up.

OK, I said I would not post agian unless I KNEW I had F***ED something up????
Well everyone, I think I may have. I DID however get the qc file doen righ, only for a simple model HOWEVER, when I go into GUIStudioMDL, which takes that qc file and makes what I want out of it, I get this..............

Loaded QC file - “C:\Documents and Settings\Monte\Desktop\SMD\GreenGrass.qc”

Created command line: “C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\sire_shivles\sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin\studiomdl.exe” -game “c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\bg2” -notxbox “C:\Documents and Settings\Monte\Desktop\SMD\GreenGrass.qc”

qdir:  “c:\documents and settings\monte\desktop\smd\”
gamedir: “c:\program files\steam\steamapps\SourceMods\bg2\”
g_path:  “GreenGrass”
Working on “GreenGrass.qc”
SMD MODEL GreenGrass.smd
WARNING: Bad collision model, check your smoothing groups!!!
WARNING: Truncating model!!!!
WARNING: GreenGrass.smd has bad smoothing groups
Model has 1 convex sub-parts
Collision model completed.

Now that is nto the whole thing, if anyone wants to see the whole things, I will post it, but seeing as to how it seems NOONE models for HL2 with this program, or possibly gos to another forum, I dont think I will get much of a usefull responce. It deos compile everything, however when I go into the model viewer, all I get is a flat plane that is purple checker board, which USEUALLY means missing textures, but I dont know WHY. I also see NO grass at ALL.
HELP.

Can’t tell for others but I know zilch about exporting to HL2. Sorry.
Like I said, you’re more likely to get an answer on a dedicated site. Try a google search.