Houndeyes in Half-Life 2 Beta

hl1plus1 · on14 Dec 2021, 00:49:32

houndeye.mdl seems to be corrupt, we do have all of their textures but not the Model, I've seen him in a few mods though, did we restore it or is it all a recreation?

Gorgantuian Friedman · **Reply #1:** on22 Jan 2022, 23:06:21

No we didn't, merely a recreation. In fact, we didn't even touch the textures or the concept art. I'm no good at repairing files so I would encourage someone else to repair the houndeye model. Either the model is corrupted or it's the hl1 model.

The Gman · **Reply #2:** on23 Jan 2022, 17:00:57

The model file is just a shell that has literally nothing inside. It's 0b in filesize, therefore it's impossible to restore. Although, there's a physics mesh for it that gives us a little idea of how it could've looked like.

The One Epicplayer · **Reply #3:** on23 Jan 2022, 17:09:39

JosephtheKP remade the mesh of the HL2 houndeye using the model's icon and physics mesh as reference material. I took this mesh, made some modifications to it and rigged it to the HL1 animations to use it in Manwich's Odyssey. This is probably THE most accurate HL2 houndeye recreation:

Haven't ported it to the leak yet because of the way that I made the animations work. Maybe one day I will.

The One Epicplayer · **Reply #4:** on23 Jan 2022, 17:12:34

In case you didn't know, here's the model's icon (which is the only image of the model) and the real physics mesh which I restored a while ago.

hl1plus1 · **Reply #5:** on24 Jan 2022, 03:10:14

Sorry for the late reply! it had been moved to my Spam folder. Thank you guys for clearing this up, it was something that had been bothering me for a while now. So most of it is mix of a recreation and restoration?