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Wolfcl0ck's Refracting Eyes

Part of my Half-Life 2 Touchups Collection: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3367711703

"EyeRefract" for all characters, using Valve's official textures AND new eyes.

But Wolfcl0ck, what is this so-called "EyeRefract?"

"EyeRefract" is a shader introduced in the Orange Box update intended to replace the old "Eye" shader. This higher quality eye system supports reflections in the eyes and is over-all a much higher quality system than the original system.

However, for whatever reason, despite the eyes being used in Team Fortress 2, Portal, and even on the updated Vortigaunts introduced in Episode 2, the EyeRefract system was never given to the original cast of the game. In fact, even Dr Magnusson, who was introduced IN Episode 2, uses the older eye system. Such a tragedy!

Thankfully, however, not all hope is lost. See, a selection of default eyes - Brown, green, and blue - were all left in the game's files, and, more importantly, are in the game's texture sources, meaning that uncompressed versions are accessible for high quality texture creations. I have taken the "long and arduous task" (about an hour or so of work) of giving all of the human characters these eyes, including entirely new eye textures for characters with unique eyes (Barney, Kleiner, Magnusson, and Gman.)