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Foldable Stock for the Auto Shotgun

In both Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2, the survivors always extend the stock of the Auto Shotgun in the deploy animation in 1st person. However, in 3rd person, the stock is static and never moves (staying extended at all times).
This mod changes that, so now the stock of the Auto Shotgun will be retracted every time the survivors holster the weapon and will be extended when the weapon is unholstered.

The original mod (which you can find here) made use of a modified version of the Auto Shotgun script (weapon_autoshotgun.txt) with an added "AddonModel" which would be used when the weapon was holstered. This new version on the other hand doesn't use any custom scripts whatsoever but instead takes advantage of a leftover feature from the first game which allows weapons to change back and forth between meshes in a bodygroup called "flashlight". The "magic" is entirely client-side and doesn't need the server to have the mod installed which in turn means you can use this mod in Official Dedicated Servers (or any server for that matter) without having to worry about getting kicked due to server consistency checks. As a matter of fact, the mod should still work for you on any server.

Many thanks to Oxxy. Without him, I wouldn't know about this feature at all.

• If you go into 3rd person, the stock of your Auto Shotgun will be retracted whether the weapon is holstered or not. This bug only affects the survivor you're playing as, on the rest of survivors the mod works as intended.

Turtle Rock Studios & Valve: Original assets.
Oxxy: Beta brain rot.
Me: Model edits & Compilling.