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Enhanced Garry's Mod Materials (Beta)

Edits to base Garry's Mod materials to be more physically accurate and look prettier.


Phong and rimlight has been added to many materials. Most materials using cubemap reflections also got an upgrade, now making use of phong and fresnel for the best possible reflections. World textures also now make use of the new phong support. Additionally, some materials have gotten fixes, such as the Dav0r button not having phong, and the star balloon's rimlight pulsing.

It should be compatible with many simple reskins, as long as they don't replace the VMTs.

Keep in mind that materials now make heavier use of shaders, so this can decrease graphics performance, especially on weaker hardware.

The null-bumpmap texture, a flat normal map heavily used in this addon in order to add phong shading to many materials, has also been optimized.

The map in screenshots 1-10 is gm_genesis.

• Phong and rimlight added to many materials that previously didn't have it where possible, even on world textures.
  
• Materials using cubemap reflections now have phong to make reflections a little more dynamic where possible.
  
• Rimlight on all materials using phong for fake diffuse reflections.
  
• Rimlight on playermodels no longer copies the color.
  
• Fresnel added to most materials using cubemaps (reflection appears stronger with viewing angle).
  
• Removed saturation and contrast modifiers from cubemap reflections, as it's not physically accurate.
  
• Various fixes for some materials. Some even now allow their model to cast flashlight shadows!
  
• Consistent phong fresnel ranges. No more weird phong behavior!
  
• Workaround for some materials with severe aliasing issues. This requires MSAA set to at least 2x in-game and antialiasing transparency set to supersampling in your graphics control panel. It may cause significantly increased GPU utilization.
  
• Displacements can be seen from both sides now for visibility purposes.

• Materials using $envmapmask don't have phong (won't fix).
  
• Will conflict with other addons replacing VMTs that this addon replaces. To make this addon take priority, unsubscribe from the conflicting addon and resubscribe to it.

• Use a more accurate fake PBR method.
  
• Enhance more materials.

somefoolouthere/gmod-enhanced-materials[github.com]

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