I was working on a project last year some time that I made a custom player model. Basically it was a reskin, but was compiled to use the new skin and not just replace the vmt/vtf. I edited the ctx so everyone would see that model and in testing it worked fine, showed ingame with no problems. Since then i had a hdd crash and lost all of it, but I was getting back into things and when i edit the ctx to point to a new model location it doesn't work. Even when using a default model that i know works.
All i change is
"models\player\scout.mdl"
to
"models\player\scout\scout.mdl"
And nothing shows ingame. The scout.mdl is in that new folder. and using listmodels shows it in the list. Even in the choose class menu no model appears for the scout.