Can anyone please explain to me how to change the original HL2 Vortigaunt textures to the new Ep2 one?
Wasn’t it an entirely new model?
And wasn’t it changed in that unofficial HL2 update?
Yes, several times. Look it up on ModDB or something
Am I the only one who prefers the original vort design from hl2?
Drunk - delete please. HA ha
is it more clear now?
Nope, I did as well. They looked more like the HL1 vorts, and their texture seemed less like it was just trying to show off Valve’s fancy new tricks, and felt more like an actual physical rough flesh texture.
I like it, it looks fine. I didnt know it was even new in ep2. Honestly, I like the half life 1 one. It has holes in it, and it looks creepier, probably from the combine slave augments.
Now i feel like a dumbass i didn’t even notice a difference
It’s understandable how you might not notice the difference, as technically for most of the game when you’re able to see the vort up close, you can choose to stare at alyx up close instead.:rabies:
I like the HL2 vorts because their skin is more scaly like the HL1 vorts, but I dislike the fact that you can hardly see their smaller eyes.
Anyway, I installed HL2 from the Orange Box DVD so it came with the original texture. Anyone have a link to this unofficial update?
Also, does anyone know of a high quality remake of the beta antlion skin?
I’d love that skin too! 
That looks like the Missing Information map e3_depot
The antlions there are HL2
so their team didn’t remake the antlion, or at least they haven’t yet.
Yeah I know about that mod but I’m holding out until he’s put out a patch to fix the animation glitches. And isn’t there a texture replacement only? I’m not downloading over a gigabyte just to get a few textures.
I have HL2, Ep1 and Ep2 so couldn’t I just extract the Ep2 textures and replace the HL2 ones? If so, could someone please tell me how to do this.
It’s not a texture update. It updates HL2 to the Orange Box engine, so all the new effects and shit are added, including HDR and particle effects.
The reason it’s so big is that you have to redownload all the maps in order for HDR to be added.
The XBox version of HL2 was used as a model for the update, so everything is as close to that as possible.
Yes I know, but I only want a vortigaunt texture replacer for now. I know about that mod but I’m waiting until some of the bugs have been ironed out.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.
Lack of facial animations makes me a sad panda.
See Burbinator, he seems to make pandas smile