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Improved HL2 Advisor

Improved HL2 Advisor

A QoL update to the HL2/EP1 model, desired by many modders.
Now re-released in the HL2 Workshop.
THIS WILL OVERRIDE THE EP2 MODEL!!!


Description:

The original HL2 Advisor model is something else: Mysterious, with big claws, a very peculiar skeleton-rig, and unused anims (and then as seen on the leak files, with multiple skin variants).
Of course, that meant that modders would inevitably use them on their maps/mods. However, as time went on,
the model was never touched up, as with EP1, it only got a new lense texture, and then the small improvements that
it got like phong were never released, as they went with a new redesign in the end for EP2.

And as such, almost everybody prefers to use the EP2 version instead. But...what if the HL2/EP1 version got tweaked then?

This thought has been like a splinter stuck on my mind for very long...until I had the chance to do this,
as a way to de-stress myself from current real life events, by working on a different, small project.

This replacement not only adds the EP1 lens texture to the HL2 model (the mesh is the same as in EP1) and made to glow, but also fixes several rigging issues on the arms and hose, which made them twist and extrude, looking weird.
Then as culmination, I tweaked the VMT files, so they contains modern stuff like phongwarp or rimlight.

I already did my own bumpmaps, but Shift was interested in this too, so she shared with me better ones.

And like if this wasn't enough, I also did a model replacement for the EP1 Advisor Pod. The Advisor within the pod
always looked terrible with these low quality textures and polys, so I made sure this was got up to date, with LODs
and all.

Feel free to use this on your own mods / packs or even to further improve it, just credit me and A. Shift.


Notes:

- Due to the way Valve used them in HL2 and EP1, many of the improvements can't be really appreciated per se, unless you know where exactly to look. It will be more appreciated on custom maps/mods

- THIS WILL OVERRIDE THE EP2 MODEL!!! (Valve named them the same). Unfortunately the HL2 Workshop has no way to indicate for which mounts an addon is, therefore there's nothing I can do here. Make sure you disable this addon when playing EP2, or the Advisor scenes will break!


Credits:

-Maestra Fenix: Fixed mesh rigging errors, improved VMTs, glowing lense texture, Advisor Pod model replacement

-A. Shift: Bumpmaps

-Valve: Original model, EP1 lense texture, EP2 Advisor phongwarp textures



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