Yes it does. I originally used EntSpy which is an old tool, but Lumper [github.com] is a better map editing tool that I used in a recent mod I made for Black Mesa.

Does this replace the orignal maps?

Dude. You are a goddamn G. This is amazing. It's just absolutely amazing.

Well, yes. When the original Improved Xen was released on the workshop, it did not have custom folder support. I also decided to add custom folder support in-case they want to have custom content in Black Mesa carried over to Improved Xen. It does not have support for subscribed workshop addons though. And you do this by modifying the gameinfo.txt file.

The description says that it uses the custom folder now? Is that to say that any mods you have installed for the main game can now be used with Improved Xen?

@Gnome_Chompsky.enjoyer im working on it, but end game is broken and im trying to fix that

if life is better now can you somehow replace original xen maps plis very plis
? I will get you a cookieeee hmm?

I hope life gets better for you soon!

For the time being, I am done with this mod. I am putting my Half-Life projects on hold because of personal life events happening. It will be a while before I can get back to modding.

Is this still being worked on?

ayo its ok

Sorry about that. I was busy with personal stuff and I wasn't much into Half-Life content lately.

2023 is fricking stupid it doesnt work for me

You should consider searching more Black Mesa mods on the internet before commenting. Check Gamebanana, the Steam Workshop, etc.

The best place to check is at the the Black Mesa ModDB page: https://www.moddb.com/games/black-mesa/mods

where is black mesa:azure sheep and black mesa blue shift at right FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKING NOW

Oh no... I'm very sad to hear that.

He not dissapeared. He was living under russian occupation for few month and then never contected me again, last time i talk with him was august. I'm afraid that worst happened to him

I think I know what they look like, but I didn't replace the 3-leg spores because they are modeled differently and have different collide boxes.

Such a shame Zloikot never released the vmfs for IX and just dissapeared. Is there a way to replace/improve the 3-leg Xen spores on the maps?

There are similar mods that does this where you have to launch a different version of Black Mesa in order to play a mod like Black Mesa: Azure Sheep and Black Mesa: Blue Shift. I hope this helps.

REALLY

You can try that, but I just want to let you know, you are not supposed to play Improved Xen on the base game (If you're playing Black Mesa right now). You have to run a .bat file with Improved Xen or, change the launch settings to "-game xen" in order to run it properly.

SO I HAVE TO RESTART THE MAPS IR PLAY THE BEGINNING OF XEN

This mod is indeed a custom mappack and not official.

Please tell me what is your problem you are facing for this mod, and what can I do to fix it? Sometimes, I can't fix everything for you, I'm sorry.

HOW IS IT NOT IN THE CUSTOM MAPS

You don't need to be this toxic. It's just a custom mappack mod made by zloikot of HECU Collective before Black Mesa: Blue Shift exists. All I did was edit the maps through EntSpy to replace most of the HL1 sounds with Black Mesa: Xen sounds but the rest of the maps remained unchanged. You do need to restart the maps or play from the beginning for the fixes to work. I never intended on trying to make Improved Xen better, but simply fix the stuff from the mod that I felt like I need to fix like the new UI.

NOW I NEED TO SEE IF IT WORKED IF I REMOVE THE ORIGNAL

IS IT FUCKING MEAN TO BE A CUSTOM MAP OR FUCKING NOT

AND YOU ARE A LYER

STILL FUCKING UNCHANGED

I HATE CAUSE ALL 4 XEN CHAPTERS ARE UNCHANGED

I was suggesting add some extra pickups to the maps themselves. Basically, this would pay homage to the original game's pickup values for these ammo types, but in a way that makes sense. Instead of what’s obviously just a single grenade somehow giving 5 in its pickup, just multiply the amount of individual pickups in a given area by 5 in the editor.

Oh. Okay then.

I wasn’t asking to change the pickup values themselves.

That means, I'm not going to change the ammo values for a mod like this.

That can only work as a separate addon for Black Mesa.

So, if possible, Maybe multiply the amount of standalone pineapple grenade & MP5 grenade pickups by 5 & 2, respectively?

Зен работает, спасибо!

( Sorry my bad English ). There are problems in the Interloper's first map, i have noticed the Mantis Flyers wing get clipping through those "Pillar" and the rock too. I hope someone fix it, thank you.

So, I figured out the problem: SourceMod causes issues with this.

I added some addons for my fix pack. One of them being the option to Disable Addons to reduce crashes. I hope enjoyed it.

Other than my rebalance mod, some weapon reanimations, & the things that were already there, I don’t have anything in "custom".

I don't think it will fix your problem though...

Here’s hoping it works.

I have updated the mod and played through it and found no problems currently.

Thanks.

Okay, I will come back and revisit it one day.

As far as I can tell, nothing that would affect the background maps.