Half-Life: Lite is a small, lightweight pack meant to enact minor bugfixes, bridge continuity between the expansions and provide improvements without deviating too far from the base games. See full description for details!
Hello, all! In celebration of Half-Life's 25th anniversary I've decided to pop outta the woodwork and upload a mod pack I assembled for myself and my friends a while ago.
In which I may release patches for this mod in the future! Depends on if I decide to keep working on it.
UPDATE: 1.1 release. View changelog for further info!
FAQ:
What is Half-Life: Lite?
As per the summary, it is a very small, lightweight vanilla enhancement mod meant to make the mainline games flow better together. As well as fix longstanding map-related bugs.
Why not just use the HD models?
Because I've always felt that the "low-definition" models looked more in-line with the "blocky" nature of the maps themselves. It's much easier to work with the game's dated graphics/artstyle rather than against it.
What games/mods are included?
Only the three mainline games (Half-Life, Opposing Force and Blue Shift) are included. I have no plans to include third-party mods at this time. And a low-definition overhaul mod for Decay already exists. That being said, I may do a pass on Decay and see about adding my own adjustments. We'll see!
Hasn't this been done before?
Correct! Vanilla improvement mods are almost a dime-a-dozen nowadays. With great ones in development such as Half-Life: Extended and the like. My overall design goal with HL:L is to keep the base game in-tact as much as possible while improving what is there in a non-invasive way to the overall Half-Life experience.
Thank you for downloading and please enjoy! Instructions on installation, a changelog and a comprehensive list of credits for work not done by me are included below.
Installation Instructions:
Extract all three of the folders into your main Half-Life directory.
Once in-game, go into Options, Content and then enable "Allow custom addon content" before hitting apply. Make sure to also enable "Enable original models" as well.
This should enable the addon across all three games, so you only have to do this once. If not, repeat process for other two expansions.
Changelog:
BUGFIX - 1.1.1: Cleansuit scientists no longer use HDified faces.
1.1 - HL: Cleansuit scientists and Otis now make some cameo appearances in We've Got Hostiles, Questionable Ethics, Forget About Freeman and Lambda Core. More will be added later.
1.1 - HL: Dead HEV dude added to Lambda Core. More might be added later.
1.1 - BS: Added some Barney vocalizations to the Player. Will be expanded upon in the future!
1.1 - BS: Increased visibility on the blue crosshair. It was kinda hard to see.
1.1 - OP4: Added improved vanilla zombie. Forgot to include it with other zombie variants.
ALL: Gina is now consistent with how she looks in Decay.
HL: Added a vestless and unarmed Calhoun at the beginning tram ride.
ALL: Various weapon model improvements/bugfixes. Most notably the 357 Magnum, Desert Eagle and MP5.
ALL: Various minor bugfixes/improvements on models across the board.
ALL: Improved the original apache models.
ALL: Improved the original osprey model.
ALL: Opposing Force grunts now exist across every game, with matching dialog.
HL: Peters' corpse now lies on the floor of the surgical unit.
HL: Fixed a bug that allowed the surgical room's door to be opened from the other side of the wall.
HL: Barney will now open the gate for you at the beginning of On A Rail.
ALL: Female Assassins resemble their male counterparts.
HL: Replaced the vanilla laser dot with Gearbox version.
BS: Blue Shift's crosshair is now blue.
BS: Blue Shift's vest and helmet are no longer always-HD.
OP4: Fixed inconsistent NPCs in Opposing Force's intro.
OP4: Fixed monsters attacking random syringe in the chapter Vicarious Reality.
OP4: Added worn out scis to Opposing Force. Holographic sci has his own model.
HL: Gave the headcrab-killing file cabinent a consistent model to match all of the others.
HL: Updated Alien Grunt crowd sprite.
HL: Updated the shotgun held by the scientist at the end of Lambda Core.
ALL: Added improved MP5 model to better resemble its world model.
ALL: Barney's gunshots now match that of the player.
ALL: Barney's pistol is now a proper glock model.
ALL: Glock world model looks more like the viewmodel.
Credits:
Half-Life assets - Valve Software
Opposing Force assets - Gearbox Software
Improved Apache - Sharpe05
Improved Barney - Sharpe05
Old.ambientimpact.com - Improved Osprey - Sharpe05/Ambient Impact
Gamebanana.com - Improved 357 Magnum - guyontv27
Gamebanana.com - Black Ops Eyebrow Textures - SouL BreakeR
Old.ambientimpact.com - Shocktrooper - Ambient Impact
Gamebanana.com - Female Assassin - Chukcha
Gamebanana.com - Universal Opposing Force Grunts - Savagely_Random
Opposing Force Grunt Voice Pack - Sharpe05
Map Fixes - Sharpe05
Gamebanana.com - Improved MP5 Model - Jakescience
Gamebanana.com - Improved Glock + Shotgun - slartbarty
Gamebanana.com - Opposing Force Glove Textures - SouL BreakeR
Twhl.info - Improved Desert Eagle - Overfloater
Gamebanana.com - Worn out scientists. - Evy Houstuvk
Gamebanana.com - LD Body Armor and Sprites - Dienor/Seiya Core
Gamebanana.com - LD Props - Evy Houstuvk
Gamebanana.com - LD Civilian Scientists - Evy Houstuvk
Gamebanana.com - Accurate Gina - Evy Houstuvk
Gamebanana.com - Improved Zombies - X Ray
Gamebanana.com - Fixed HEV Suit - SourceCode
Gamebanana.com - Civ Barney -BrussTrigger/LeonelC
Gamebanana.com - Fixed Endgame Agrunt Sprite - RadiantWater
Gamebanana.com - Barney Pain Sounds - TT2C
Sharpe05 - Blue Shift Vocalization sentence.txt file
Good addon! 😺
This helps fill in that QOL patch-shaped void that HL Community Edition left ever since that disappeared from here and GameBanana.
Awesome!
Nice! Will be keeping an eye on this, since Valve made the classic models the default option. Plus keeping any of my installed HD packs updated is such a dang hassle.
Can confirm this works.
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This great idea for a future update is to add the zombies Barney and hgrunt in consistent maps
You're in luck! I plan on doing that next major update.
The apache and osprey models are great improvements and I really like the darker texture you gave to the worldmodel for the glock. I think it could potentially fit as both an alternative model for third person view and NPCs that use the glock like the asssassins, barneys and medics. One small error I noticed is that the Cleansuit Scientist model included for the cameos is the HD version rather than the LD, hopefully that'll be easy to fix.
I do recommend giving Some NPC's Fixed and Civil Models with Variation by Brusstrigger a look as well as Security Guard Shoe Textures Fixed by XRGM1267 - X-RED as those include some nice improvements that could be used as inspiration for this pack if credit goes to them.
I'm definitely going to follow and use this addon in playthroughs
I appreciate the feedback and suggestions. Good catch on the cleansuits, as well, I actually didn't notice that until now.
A proper glock worldmodel is on my todo list for a future update. And I'll be sure to check out those mods you listed, too.
Late EDIT: Cleansuits are now fixed.
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Skeletons for the HD models should be the same as the LD models mind if I modified the models
Minor bugfix update. - Cleansuit sci faces aren't HD anymore. Sorry for the wait, been busy.