Hiipanda's HD Models kitbash and replacer addon

A lot of the the factions have similar looks to them due to sharing a lot of gear and being reskins. Some of the lighter armor is more visually distinct, but the higher the tiers the more similar they are. This aims to replace the clothing and some of the helmets to keep faction looks from bleeding into each other.

This will not be a standalone mod and aims to be compatible with other reskins. New textures are given new names for other mod authors to retexture. I'm a lot better with meshes than I am with textures.

Philosophy for each faction

1. Bandits:
   1. They use more blue jeans, track suits, and leather jackets under their armor. They have more access to this style of clothing and it fits with their look in the original games (if you discount the adidas striped atlyn helmets they now have).
2. Mercs
   1. Wanted a warmer style jacket for the mercenaries and something with some contrast in collar, so I used a retextured hunting jacket the Loners use. It looks cool and isn't something used by Russia or Ukraine. Overall it gives the Mercenaries a more Western European identity with their gear compared to the ISG or other factions.
      
      1. New helmet with texture, retextued jacket for mercs, backpack mesh with existing texture.
      2. Replaced M17 gasmask with visor or m40, replaced Russian steel helm and xof helmet with British MK6 helm.
      3. New backpack using existing textures.

Contents

1. Bandits
   1. Replaced 2 Berills, Light, Skat, Exo, and Exo Suit.
2. Mercs
   1. stalker_ki_antigas, stalker_merc_0, stalker_merc_1_helm_battle, stalker_merc_1_helm_battle_nogas,stalker_merc_2_balloon_on_helm_battle, stalker_merc_2_helm_battle, stalker_merc_2_helm_battle_nogasstalker_merc_4_skat, stalker_merc_military, stalker_merc_berill_antigaz, stalker_merc_berill_specnaxstalker_merc_sun1_merc, stalker_merc_sun1_old, stalker_mercb2, Three different zombied mercs got the visor gasmask instead of the M17 gasmask.
   2. 17 different meshes.

Requirements

HD Models

Images

• Bandits
• 2 New Bandit textures added for their atlyn Helmet
• Mercs
• Skat and Berill show off the new Jackets.
• Skat recieves a new chest rig, pouches, and jacket, but keeps the armor. It is stylish and the texture name says spider silk. I just head cannon it as a zone produced suit using spider silk from altered mutants. There was, or is, real life talk about that.
• Merc 0 show off the backpack
• Berill shows off the British Mk6 Helm.

Future Plans

1.Mercs- removing russian helms and adding a reskined hunting jacket for the very light mercs. Changes to the skat suit and their sunrise suit. Other small tweaks.

2. The rest in a random order with a faction being released as their done.

Credits

1. HD Models
   1. Moddb.com

Changelog.

1. Initial Release 5/29/22
   1. Bandit faction
2. BugFix 5.30.22
   1. I finally found the the location where the sdk was spitting my textures out at. It wasn't where the guides said it would be.
   2. Missing Textures fixed.
3. Merc Release 6.3.22
4. Merc Bugfix 6.4.22
   1. Two helmet meshes were pointing to older helmet textures.
5. Merc Bugfix.V.02 6.4.22
   1. Set correct shader on helmet so it isn't black.