$scale not changing

[NAPREDATOR]

This is what my .qc file looks like

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$modelname "worldofwarcraft\shattrath\shattrathpart1.mdl"
$body "Body" "shattrathpart1.smd"
$cdmaterials "worldofwarcraft\Wmo\outland\terokkar\Dungeons\Textures"

$staticprop
$scale 70
$surfaceprop "Metal"

$sequence "idle" "shattrathpart1" fps 2

$collisionmodel “shattrathpart1.smd”
     {           
          $concave
     }

Everything works fine when i put it in studiomdl.exe but for some reason the scale is always exactly the same even though i've tried changing it a few times

[Gambini]

Quite sure it should be $scale "70". All my qc files read like that.

EDIT: The whole order of your lines seem strange. This is what staticprop by me looks like and i never had any problems:

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$staticprop
$modelname "southernmost/ashtray.mdl"
$scale "3.2"
$body "Body" "ashtray_ref.smd"
$cdmaterials "models/southernmost"
$sequence idle "ashtray_ref.smd"
$surfaceprop "metal"
$collisionmodel "ashtray_phys.smd"  { $concave }

[NAPREDATOR]

Quite sure it should be $scale "70". All my qc files read like that.

EDIT: The whole order of your lines seem strange. This is what staticprop by me looks like and i never had any problems:

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$staticprop
$modelname "southernmost/ashtray.mdl"
$scale "3.2"
$body "Body" "ashtray_ref.smd"
$cdmaterials "models/southernmost"
$sequence idle "ashtray_ref.smd"
$surfaceprop "metal"
$collisionmodel "ashtray_phys.smd"  { $concave }

i took a look at a different model that i did and in its .qc file there were no quotes around the scale number and that one worked fine

[Gambini]

Then, it may be something with collapsing all transforms in your model before exporting.

If you use XSI, freeze model and object and then go to the transform tab and click "freeze all transforms".

If it´s 3d Studio, i think it was something about collapsing the transform stack.

[NAPREDATOR]

In the end i just made the model several times bigger in 3dsmax, i thought that if i did that it would increase the size of the file significantly as i am making some huge models but they are not much larger at all

[kraid]

The models scale doesn't affect the filesize at all. Only adding more vertics (even by changing smoothing groops) will cause this. Also the bigger factor is the texture size and compression anyway.
AFAIK, the $scale doesn't affect the collision mesh, so it should rather be used for props that don't need one, e.g. skybox props.

I really wish valve would include model scaling in the SDK.

[Gambini]

AFAIK, the $scale doesn't affect the collision mesh

That´s incorrect.

[NAPREDATOR]

after adding $scale to the very top of the .qc file it seemed to work

[Duke Nukem]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$scale

scale has to be placed before the "body" line