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Shader Showcase Antlion [NPC]

(Uploaded by request)

A Source Engine Slideshow on AMDs website (https://drivers.amd.com/developer/gdc/D3DTutorial10_Half-Life2_Shading.pdf) showcases a version of the antlion from after the beta leak but before the final game released. This version of antlion had an exaggerated normal map.

On New Years 2023, a set of hl2 assets leaked, including this version of the antlion's textures. This mod takes the antlion mesh from the beta, the animations from Episode 2 (for episodic support,) and the normal map from this leak to give us this lost version of antlion.

Since spheremaps are no longer supported natively in modern source, I instead found the average color of the antlion spheremap and used it as the envmap tint for cubemaps. I think this is better in the longrun than having an envmap of its own.

Does not include the "specular factor" from the normal map simply because I prefer the base map.