Just a heads up for those of you who might use it.

I've updated my GUIStudioMDL2 (http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/guistudiomdl2.php) tool too add dual-support for the EP1 and Orangebox SDK compilers. You can seamlessly switch between them as needed without any restarts or hacks and compile QCs as needed.

For those of you who don't know of GUIStudioMDL2, it's a "wrapper" around the command line model compilers from the SDK. It doesn't replace the compilers, it simply gives you a nice Windows application you can use to compile your models without having to mess around with the command line tools.

Download (http://www.wunderboy.org/apps/guistudiomdl2.php)

and you forgot to mention that it rocks! thanks jed :))

Äsch. It gets the job done...

Obviously theres still some bugs with the actual studiomdl.exe compiler but there nothing to do with GUIStudioMDL2. Hopefully Valve will fix them *soon*.