Nevermind, it suddenly decided to start working *shrug*

I'm not sure why but I don't seem to be able to get this to work. I've subscribed but the model still shows as the default BM one?

Maybe the bullsquid is not a predator, the only thing we see it eating are headcrabs and dead bodies, they attack humans, but just kinda spit at them fror far and only when you get close they actually attack, i'd say bullsquids are like both, they hunt smaller and weaker animals but are hunted themselves probably by houndeyes or aliens we did not get to see.

Also this design just kinda looks sick as hell.

@CyborgParrot I'd argue them having eyes on the sides of the skull is great at implying some horrifying things about Xen or where ever they came from. If the acid spitting tentacle monster is prey, what is its predator?

so they did have side-facing eyes at some point

An alien creature doesn't have to follow Earth logic, therefore the change was still not needed, especially being an inferior one

I guess from a biological perspective it kind of makes sense we ended up with the Bullsquid design we got, being a predator that hunts based on vision they would need to be able to have binocular vision and all that (like imagine if our eyes, or the eyes of a Tiger, or the eyes of a T.Rex were on the side of their skull, they'd be kind of at a disadvantage).

With that said, it's nice to see cut content restored and added back.

@9pop Is under a CC license so yeah, just credit everybody ( Jeff "CGJeff" Smith, Crowbar Collective and me )

Do I have permission to make a green eyed reskin of this mod?

@drslapnutz make sure you installed the addon right

It seems like, at least the way I installed it, the normal eyes still appear on the top of their head, even though they're eyelids are on the sides now. Am I installing it wrong or is this just how the mod is?

Finally found some time to add the bumpmap. Don't mind the extra versions, it was me accidentally releasing twice the wrong file U>_>

Damn, that looks really cool! Seems like a nice in between with BMS and the Classic design. I hope someone ports this model to EZ:2, since, to me at least, BrainDead's model (although good) doesn't really fit in HL2 less "game-y" art design (if you understand what I'm trying to say)

Nevermind, its because I put it in my custom folder.

Only changing the texture of the model for some reason.

@weird Finches OH NO, YOU ARE RIGHT, I didn't include it at all. Welp.

Oh no I think you might've just forgotten to include the normal map. There's none in the file.

@weird finches Upon looking very close, you are right: the normal map that I took from the artist's portfolio is slightly different from the alpha around the eyes. Is very slight, but enough to see a difference.

Guess I will take the alpha one instead. As for when I will update this addon, I can't tell. Perhaps in 3-6 months.

I'm glad somebody ported this over but there's a small problem: the normal map doesn't line up properly with the model. There's a couple of indents where the eyes should be on the current normal map. I have a copy of the pre-release one if you're interested.

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I suggest you improve it because the ragdoll is a bit strange seen from the front it looks like a surfboard, if it had a rounder head so you can see the eyes from the front it would be even more beautiful, anyway good job

ITS SIMILAR TO THE HL1 BULLSQUID

Thanks for this, the weird top-placed eyes in the retail model have always bugged me and violate the original design intent (similarity to octopi)

This is such a perfect model. It doesn't have the dumb looking eyes on the final Black Mesa model but doesn't look cartoony like the Half Life model.

Why does it look so uncanny lol

Well, a pretty big difference is that the eyelids on the old texture sheet are placed elsewhere than on the retail one, and the newer normalmaps account for that.

There was no real changes from the original bake to the ones in the mod and retail.

The gibs are still using an old one, however.

Also seems like there's no replacement for the normalmap. Why is that?

Hmm.... Guess I misread that. But it shouldn't be that difficult re-adding them in, since the eye movement isn't actually present on every animation.

I think I'll try adding them back in myself with 3dsmax, to see if that works.

Indeed, as I said on the description.

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In the free moddb version of black mesa, the bullsquid still has blinking animations, in fact it's "cheeks" are rigged to those bones, and you actually could see them twitching slightly in the idle animation. This was removed on the steam version.

damn he is ugly as fuck

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

YES YES MY PRERS WERE ANSWERED PEOPLE SAID THAT THEY DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE BETA BULLSQUID IN THE DISCORDS BUT LOOK AT US NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oooooh i know this pre-release bullsquid

it was good model before its design was changed into that weird looking but okay design

that new design looked diffrent as its eyes on his fore head guess... but the pre-release looks more resembled to classic bullsquid, still, he looks different

liked them

Is using a new model as you can see both on the description and images.
Also yours use the texture from the leak, which had some DXT damage.

is this using a new model, or its just texture of the early 2005/2006 bm, because it look like exactly the same as this mod i did a while ago : https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2731737419 (if not let me know cause it really look similar to me)