turning off saber hilt skins?

[katanamaru]

Hey all, I'm trying to turn off the skin for the mastersword and just can't seem to get it right. I know how to tell player models to make the skin "clear" and then change the .surf to off, but that just doesn't seem to work for me with the saber or sword in this case. Any help would be nice.

[Wudan]

You'll want to make a shader for each surface's texture, and put the shader key for nodraw. I forget what it is, but this is what you're after.