Ran the NPC textures through various Neural Upscaling programs, mixed the best results, and made the final touches myself, to get the most sharp-looking textures without ruining the original material.
¡Please read the .txt inside of the package and follow the instructions, or else you will get inconsistent results when playing Blue Shift with this addon!
First of all thanks to Garompa for his help deciphering most of the text written in most pick up models, and Theuaredead´ for his contribution to the HEV Suit textures.
2.4 - Updated the following models:
Barney now has a more detailed Kevlar vest and a remade ID badge
Scientists now have a proper belt for their pants! wooo
Fixed Luther's and Gman's mouth mesh, teeth show properly now
Most NPCs got their textures redone/tweaked in order to restore lost details that can only be found on the official model renders.
- These changes affects the following NPCs: Alien Grunt, Alien Slave, Zombie and Controller.
The HEV Suit (Player, Hologram and pick up) now has a updated glove texture to match the view model better.
NOTE: Gibs and player (p_) models not included, they will be added in the next update.
2.3 - Added the following models:
Blue shift models (this includes NPCs, props, view and world models exclusive to the expansion).
Fixed bug on certain animations where NPCs would open their mouth when playing non-corresponding sounds.
Gibs! (Only organic gibs so far)
Note: Removed the widescreen view models since they required a lot of work and you can easily fix this by setting default_fov to 105.
2.2 - Added the following models:
Almost every world model item (pistol is still unfinished, RPG world model not done yet).
View models patched for widescreen resolution (Warning: Highly experimental and heavy WIP)
^These are located at "NeuralPack\models\widescreen view models"
Update - Added v_rpg model (sorry)
2.1.X - Added the following models:
Every view model
Apache
Big Momma/Gonarch
Black Mesa Forklift
Fungus(all 3 variations)
Female Assassin
Gina/Hologram
Icky/Ichthyosaur
Xen Light
Black Mesa Loader
Mini Turret
Nihilanth
Osprey
Player
Rocket Engine
Sentry
Xen Tree
Turret
Battery and Healthkit added as a bonus
- Reverted labcoat UV's on the scientist back to normal
- Added sound fixes to v_crossbow and v_357
- World/Player models not done yet, same for gibs.
2.X.4 - Restored bulletproof hitboxes on the Alien Grunt
Hotfix 2 - Fixed islave model
Hotfix 1 - Fixed zombie scaling
Barnacle and Tentacle Base are included but not shown in the preview.
Move to your "models" folder located at "Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\valve\models".
(or valve_hd in case you want to make them togglable, just make sure to empty the folder first in order to avoid inconsistency in models and sounds).
More to come in the future.
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Good work, keep it up!
Great stuff!
For some reason the "islave.mdl" one doesn't open (Error post-loading model on Jed's HLMV). At least on my end.
Yea I uploaded the wrong model :P, it should be fine now! Thanks for noticing!
You're welcome. Thanks for the fix. :)
Nice work!,
Amazing stuff man, can you imagine what the future of neural nets will bring?
maybe quake will be next
They wont do quake
I dont think he has done Op4, so probably that
the biggest problem is that Op4 is a proper ******* expansion so there will be quite a few things to upscale
I'll work on op4 around the end of july or august
Fucken' Sweet as.
Will you do the same for the Opposing Force and Blue Shift Models?
blue shift is already in pack
I am interested to know what software was used and thanks.
Edit: I see you mention in your credits
I came!
These look incredible! Nice work.
One thing I will say is that some of the textures, particularly faces look like they are off center, which is an issue the older models had too when exported with something like MilkShape3D. Are there any plans to make these adjustments in future to align them correctly on the UV Map?
I don't see any misalig-
Oh wow, how come I never noticed that D:
I'll see to fix the UVs when I get back to this.
(it's actually an issue with neural upscaling, stuff gets misaligned for some reason)
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It is an issue with the puplisher, somewhat slack and careless.
Most models are ok, only hgrunt & tentacle have to be fixed. Good work in overall!
Any chance you can point out the flaws on them? Honestly I made those two at the last moment so I'm not surprised that I messed up somewhere.
It's about UVs.
(buried)
UrbaNebula Please, if you are able, show us on a blog or something. I had noticed that the headcrab was the later, Blue shift or cstrike one.
Thats a nice poster actually
Would also love to see this technique used on default weapons' textures.
Wow, the texture just look so magnificent.
Excellent work!
Hot!
so is this just npc textures or is it all textures
What you see on the preview is what you get (plus the Barnacle and the Tentacle's base)
amazing work! just imagine this type of upscaling on the weapon models...
This is the true ******* HD pack we always deserved!
I ******* love you.
Any plans for the doing the decals? that would be nuts.
The way decals get projected in world textures would make them look bigger, sadly.
I should say, this looks great! Awesome work.
Though I still like the models from HD Pack too...
God they look so good.
Will you be adding the Nihilanth to have high res textures? I've always wondered what some of his facial details were meant to look like
I'm on it! Slowly tackling the remaining NPCs
YES!
This is what I was dreaming about for years. I always wanted to see the models as they were textured like the renders Valve published back in the day. Fantastic work LeonelC, I hope you continue working on this.
I have a problem with Agrunt which is if I shoot the armor that appears instead the blood isn't a reflection of the bullet. Fix it (sorry im using google translate)
Oh it seems the hitboxes got broken on decompile, thanks for noticing!
These look awesome!
Question:
Any plans of doing the same thing for brutal half-life version of the npcs?
Nope.
I'll release the source files once I'm done with this project, so maybe someone else might give that a chance.
Great update LeonelC!
I'd love to see the HD models as well (some of them are somewhat better than the LD ones).
Nice to see my favorite addon getting updates, great job and please keep it up.
Great work!
Nice work !
Man, this is NICE! Any chance that you might add the other audio fixes to the weapons, like Mr.Dr.Professor.Toaster did (bazooka reloading sound) or 357 shells hitting the floor, et cetera? I see that you added a few for the crossbow...
Anyway, this is awesome! After trudging through some rather questionable user-made model pack, it's rather refreshing to go "back to the (although sexier looking now) basics!