I'm having trouble with the editor I am working on-

ent_create can load models from the same directory as the level file that has been loaded, but apparently not the original program directory.

How do I fix it so that I can also load the models in the same directory as the application?

can't you use a path in the name of the entity you want to create?

%EXE_DIR%\models\yourmodel.mdl

as an example - not tried

Doesn't work- it seems like %EXE_DIR% is in relation to the level file that's been loaded instead of the actual program file...

Maybe try

"..\models\model.mdl" to load stuff from the folder above?

Fixed it-

STRING* dir = str_create(work_dir);
str_cat(dir,"\\models");
add_folder(dir);