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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: NPC
Addon Tags: Fun, Realism
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31 Oct, 2022 @ 8:25pm
22 Dec, 2023 @ 5:13pm
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NPC Variants

Description
Attention: Not all skins in this pack are created by me. Below I will leave the credits for each of its authors, Thanks to all of them for their excellent work.

Due to limitations of the GMA files (the files that workshop works with) for some users the game will load by default the base game files and not the .gma files... This addon uses models with multiple skins, which sometimes the game refuses to load if they are inside a gma file.

If any skin doesn't work for you, please download the addon directly from this link and unzip its content in your addons folder inside your Garrys Mod, that should fix the model file loading priority issues

this file will be kept updated like the workshop file
NPC Variants Model Fix[drive.google.com]

Why settle for having to choose between one skin or another? NPC Variants is an addon that allows you to simultaneously have several of the best skins (and even with different statistics) from several NPCs.

I have saved most of these skins many years ago, when gmod 11 still existed... So I don't have information about many of their authors, and many of them are no longer available. Please, if anyone knows any of the missing authors in the list below, write me in the comments who it is, so I can add it immediately here along with your contribution.

I hope you like it
(This addon is required for some Advanced TRATools tools)

This addon adds the following NPCs:
- Helicopter (EP2 propellers and lights)
- Strider Elite (50% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_strider_health_elite (def. 1550)

- Sniper
- Combine APC (and empty variant) (Coded by me)
- Hunter (if you have EP2)
- Hunter Gold (if you have EP2) (50% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_hunter_health_golden (def. 600)

- Hunter Elite (if you have EP2) (120% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_hunter_health_elite (def. 880)

- Combine War Soldier 1, 2 y 3 (50% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_combine_s_warrior_health (def. 150)

- Combine Elite Black

- Combine Soldier BlackOP (30% more hp)
- Combine Soldier BlackOP 2 (30% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_combine_s_black_health (def. 130)

- Combine Android (140% more hp)
New Cvar: sk_combine_s_metal_health (def. 240)

- Combine Soldier Foreigh

- MetroCop pack
New Cvars:
Metro Police Elite and Special
"sk_metropolice_elite_health" = 120

Metro Police Black and Phoenix
"sk_metropolice_black_health" = 100

- Rebel Turret (if you have EP2)
- Rebel Mine
- Vortigaunt Doctor (if you have EP2)
- Vortigaunt Xen slave

- Antlion Grub (if you have EP2)
- Antlion Worker (if you have EP2)
- Antlion Color

- Antlion Black (55% more health)
- Antlion Aracnid (55% more health)
New Cvar: sk_antlionblack_health (def 130hp)

- Antlion Arctic
- Antlion Beta

- Antlion Warrior (120% more health) (Double Damage) (HL2 Features addon is required for double DMG)
- Antlion Spitter (120% more health) (Double Damage) (doesn't explode like a antlion worker, HL2 Features addon is required for double DMG and no explode function)
New Cvar: sk_antlionarmored_health (def. 180)

- Antlion Guard Arctic
- Antlion Guard Wasted

- Antlion Guard Black (25% more health)
- Antlion Guard Aracnid (25% more health)
New Cvar: sk_antlionguardblack_health (def. 2500hp)

- Antlion Guardian (if you have EP2) (50% more health)
- Antlion Guardian 2 (Blue glow) (if you have EP2) (50% more health)
New Cvar: sk_antlioncaveguard_health (def. 3000hp)

- Zombie citizen (and torso)
- Zombie Medic (and torso)
- Zombie Rebel (and torso)
- Zombie Rebel 2 (and torso)
- Zombie Rebel Security (and torso)
- Zombie Scientist (and torso)
- Zombine
- Zombine Shotgunner
- Zombine Guard

- Zombine Elite
- Zombine Elite Black
New Cvar: sk_zombie_soldier_elite_health

- Zombie Poison 2

all these variants can be randomly generated using Spawn Platforms Deluxe addon!
Spawn Platforms Deluxe

It also fixes the problem with the Vortigaunt's rays and
add the animations of the fast zombie lying on the ground.


HL2 SKILL OVERHAUL
(highly recommended along with NPC Variants)
Do you want to have a similar or more difficulty in gmod as you had in HL2, but are you too lazy to configure everything yourself? Here is a small file (Highly Improved) with all likely the proper HL2 settings like NPC HP, Weapons Damage, Explosions Damage, NPC's Damage, etc... which will give your NPC's a higher difficulty to balance fights between them!

Extract rar archive into your garrysmod folder (NOT IN ADDONS FOLDER)
Remember that you can always edit it as you wish if any of the values ​​are not what you want.
HL2 SKILL OVERHAUL [drive.google.com]

Compatibility with other mods
In order to add new skins without replacing the original ones, NPC Variants replaces the original NPC model with the same one but adding new skins... that is, NPC Variants uses a model file, for example, for the combine soldier (combine_soldier. mdl) the same as the original, but the NPC Variants model includes several additional skins... if you replace the NPC Variants model with that of another mod you will not see the new skins

This happens because you are trying to replace the original model in combine_soldier.mdl, and both mods are trying to replace the same model.

Any mod that replaces an original NPC model will be incompatible. However, replacements only of skins (textures) do not have any problem with NPC Variants

I HAVE FOUND A ERROR/BUG!
In order to help you, you must comment all the details, all actions and steps you followed to be able to reproduce the error and also, if it is a lua error leave the error line. all this in the comments. If the information mentioned above is missing, you will be possibly ignored.

See also:
Dismemberment Gore Reconstructed
Immersive Battle Cleanup
Spawn Platforms Deluxe
HL2 Features
Universal Army Skins (7 hours war)
Advanced TRATools
War Machines NPCs
Better Explosions Pack

-----------------------------------------CREDITS---------------------------------------------
Before the credits were written here in the description, but the addon was growing and all the information in the workshop no longer fits... thanks to all the authors for their effort creating these skins! (including me)
NPC Variants Skins Authors CREDITS [docs.google.com]

Copyright 2022 [TR@VIESO]. This article/content is not authorized to be published on Steam, except under the Steam account with the name TR@VIESO
177 Comments
Kasen Ibaraki 7 Feb @ 5:17am 
@grandpahidekitakashithetwelfth

How did you do that?
My Sabrean's variants addon doesn't work well with this addon
Maqsud101 30 Jan @ 5:26pm 
This is what happen if half life mmorpg relased.
kshydenny 29 Jan @ 7:31pm 
idk if this is an issue with this mod but the npc tabs separated (i.e combine in this mod appear in their own tab but they used to appear with vanilla combine) no errors at all either
pablo.gonzalez.2017 7 Jan @ 6:29pm 
does this replace stuff, so i can have some variety in HL2 campaigns?

if not, that sucks, but its still cool
DarkBlackity 20 Dec, 2024 @ 12:30pm 
Deleted the mod once I got bored of it (wanted to use the military combine mod again), however the mod is still there, npc's still use the textures of this mod even though it's deleted, I verified my game files and it's still there.
grandpahidekitakashithetwelfth 30 Nov, 2024 @ 9:20am 
i honestly find hilarious that i didn't expect these zombies variants to actually work well alongside Sabrean's variants , and with Sabrean's built-in randomizer upon spawn, it actually spawns the variants from this addon as well.

this unironically feels like an unintended expansion pack and thats fucking cool
AntlionSoldier344 29 Nov, 2024 @ 1:40pm 
this seems to make reskin mods not work
TR@VIESO  [author] 21 Nov, 2024 @ 6:38pm 
@KebabSlayer
That problem has nothing to do with NPC Variants.
Kebz 16 Nov, 2024 @ 7:31pm 
Some NPCs are not moving. Solution?
TR@VIESO  [author] 17 Sep, 2024 @ 2:59pm 
@Foxy
I'm glad you solved it