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[WOTC] Half-Life 2 Arsenal Ghost Templates

This is an updated version of my Half-Life 2 Weapon Pack which is now set up as a Ghost Template pack running on Iridar's Template Master.

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A "template" refers to how the game's various gear and weaponry (and some others) are set-up in the code, they're called Templates interally as they run on the game's Template System to make everything work.

A "ghost template" is a weapon that technically exists in-game but isn't usable as a selectable weapon in the arsenal. They're meant to be applied to other weapons as a visual re-skin using external mods, such as these:

• XSkin (easiest to use) - Re-skin any weapon you want directly in the armory.
  
  
• Template Master itself - Replace aspects of other weapons via config.
  
  
• Weapon Skin Replacer - Similar to Template Master, but older and with fewer features.

If you use XSkin, the "Owned" filter needs to be turned off to see the weapons in the re-skin menu, since the player doesn't 'own' them because they're not 'real' arsenal weapons. If doing cross-category skinning, you'll also want the "Category" filter off.

The categories i've assigned these weapons don't matter as much as you'd think, and this especially applies to Primaries. Most of them are two-handed long guns that can be given skins cross-category without much issue. This includes combos like skinning a Sniper into a Shotgun, or a Cannon into a Vektor Rifle. If you see a weapon and want it in another category, just assign it to a weapon inside that category, 90% chance it'll work just fine.

• Crowbar (HL2Crowbar)

• H&K USP (HL2USP)
  
• Colt Python (HL2357)

• H&K MP7 (HL2MP7)
  
• Combine AR2 (HL2AR2)

• Franchi SPAS-12 (HL2Spas)

The names in parenthesis represent that weapon's internal template name, which'll be relevant to you if working with config files that require use of the weapons' template names.

• Template Master - REQUIRED for this mod to work at all, obviously.

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• Juniez - Creator of the HD Half-Life 2 models and textures used in this pack which i took from here.
  
  
• Valve - Creators of the Half-Life series, the original designers of these weapons, and the creators of the gun fire SFX used in this pack.