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(Obsolete) Shantae Playermodel and Ragdoll

This is workshop clutter and people complain whether I take it down or leave it up.

GMod renders pictured above made by Risky Boots the Pirate Queen.

After much development and listening to people's feedback and suggestions, here is the finalized, public, enhanced version of my personal Shantae character model. Based on the game series of the same name, developed by WayForward. The design is most heavily derived from "Pirate's Curse", though I tried to incorporate elements from the other games in the series. Hopefully this meets most of people's expectations, but please feel free to provide me with additional constructive feedback.

The master Shantae character model had to be split into multiple models (mdls). This was done to work around the limits of the Source engine, specifically with TF2's model compiler. Adding together all bodygroups results in a character model with 58,402 total triangles. This is too many for TF2's compiler (maximum of 50,000 triangles allowed) The split Shantae character models have unique bodygroups and their own physics model corresponding to Shantae's different hairstyles (ponytail vs. braided vs. loose).

Why are the ragdolls and playermodels separate? The IK rigging needed for the playermodels caused some issues when using my custom animation sequences, distorting the legs and (to a lesser extent) the arms. As a compromise, the ragdolls will have my custom embedded animations while the playermodels with have the standardized Half-Life 2 playermodel animations.

Features:
Includes both playermodels and ragdolls
Multiple bodygroups for alternate outfits/costumes
Multiple skins, include Nega-Shantae skin and neon Nintendo Switch-themed skin
Various props
Eye, finger, and face posing
Jiggle/procedural bones!
Embedded custom ragdoll animation sequences (57 total)
Custom viewmodels

Modeled entirely by me in Blender. I did not create the normal map for the hair. This was copied from the files for a model originally modeled by user http://creatorofpony.deviantart.com/ and then tiled to 2048 × 2048. All other textures were created by me using GIMP.

Special Thanks:
Pte Jack whose series of YouTube tutorial videos taught me pretty much everything I now know regarding how models behave and are exported in the Source Engine. I cannot thank him enough.

Risky Boots the Pirate Queen for the featured Garry's Mod renders.

The Valve Developer Wiki.

WayForward for making a great game.

Py-Bun, whose QC file for her Papyrus model helped me figure out how stereo flexes are exported and complied.

Mr. Prawn, who reached out to me and helped me figure out how to properly implement an eye rig in Source.

BeardedDoomGuy for some modeling tips and reminding me of that backer costume from the ½ Genie Hero Kickstarter campaign.

LegoGuy9875, for leaving some constructive feedback on DA, all of which was later implemented to improve this model. Also for beta-testing version 2.0.

mrbenio for pointing out Shantae's lack of a collar in Risky's Revenge and leaving positive and friendly feedback.

Doc/Revzin, whose puppet script saved me so much time when it came to redoing the custom embedded animations.