The first and only assembly of graphic mods for Half-Life for Xash3D

Good day, reader. You must be aware of the existence of such a self -written engine as XASH3D which is almost completely compatible with GoldSRC, on which for twenty years they chased and continue to drive the first halva and many more games. Xash3D will add a number of new models for modding, but perhaps its most important feature is that thanks to Xash it is possible to launch Half-Life 1 on android.

About Xash and how to launch Half-Life 1 on android smartphone “probably heard almost everyone whose horizons go beyond the limits of Google Play. But only the legend of the game industry obviously in many respects loses the kiloton of donate slag from the official market. Therefore, it is obvious that most people even have the opportunity to touch the game, they will better bypass it.

In this regard, our small team had the idea to make an already masterpiece shooter on the Zumer platform itself more attractive in visual terms. A month of work and we reached the schedule in the game. Now she can at least stand on a par with mobile shooters. And even in the gameplay, if this reaches this, a full rape of the latter will follow.

Before I start a report on the work done, I want to warn that this article is written as an additional PR of our video report. But, the article will be completely disassembled and all the material is illustrated. Therefore, now you have a choice between your usual text format or video river, a link to which is presented below.

Five minutes of report on the work done is hidden behind.

Replacement of light, shadows and effects

The first thing the work began is the light. For a simple layman, I will inform you that it is stored in the form of an archive with all shadows and brightness notes. Of course, where in the 1998 game to be full -fledged shaaders? So the most elementary part of the work is to find and replace these archives. Without immersing you in this simple but dreary process, I will show the result.

If you are embarrassed by the buttons by half the screen, then the most important thing is to see the result. This assembly can be launched in the same way on a PC, but more on that later

If you are embarrassed by the buttons by half the screen, then the most important thing is to see the result. This assembly can be launched in the same way on a PC, but more on that later

If you are embarrassed by the buttons by half the screen, then the most important thing is to see the result. This assembly can be launched in the same way on a PC, but more on that later

Effects

The next step was to replace all effects. This item Players club vip includes explosions, shots, and electric discharges, and portals with all sorts of other luminous, sparkling objects. All this is now in HD.

The same applies to blood splashes and the remains of the player or NPC. They are now either HD sprite or a completely converted model.

The same applies to blood splashes and the remains of the player or NPC. They are now either HD sprite or a completely converted model.

The same applies to blood splashes and the remains of the player or NPC. They are now either HD sprite or a completely converted model.

The same applies to blood splashes and the remains of the player or NPC. They are now either HD sprite or a completely converted model.

Models

1) environment

This item is bigger. The most important thing that was devoted to replace is the main WAD archive containing all the textures of the environment. From now on, they are either converted by the unhealthy author manually or apceleiled by the neural network. This includes models of almost all static objects at levels, starting with a wagon at the beginning, ending with mushrooms in the zena.

This also includes objects activated in one way or another, such as first -aid kits, charging stations, stairs.

2) weapons and pickups

In the same screenshot you can notice a gun that looks an order of magnitude better than the original. I think it is obvious that when trying to improve the graphic component in the first -person shooter, it is impossible to offend the weapon with attention. It is replaced by redrawn analogs. And not only those models that are in the hands of the hero, but also those that lie on the floor.

3) NPC

Of course, one cannot help but touch the players in the multiplayer and NPC. Separately or immediately in packs, but all people were replaced, all players and all the bestialist in the game.

It is difficult to stretch the paragraph to several sentences here. Just Skyboxes are also changed.

Final strokes

I am addressing to this item, because you will have to believe my word. It is changed where we found it necessary, and I’m sorry did not write it down separately, and the screenshot unfortunately would not convey it.

And probably the most unusual, but rather a bonus addition – XASHVR. Just by the end of the work, the subscriber threw us this nishtyak and the sin was not to turn it on. In the multiplayer, the thing is pretty funny. It is important that he does not go instead of the original. Just instead of a conventional Xash you need to use XASHVR

This launcher uses an accelerometer to rotate 360 ° on any axis with a camera, but of course about any traffic monitoring, and even more so Motion of speech controllers does not undergo. The maximum of what you can count on – glasses for Android (± 4K ₽) and any gamepad that can be connected to the phone. However, for normal management, you need a special confing file, but more on this in the next paragraph.

Installation

Remember the procedure. It is customary to break piracy, so we did not fill anything on any discs (almost no joke). Everything necessary for the game lies in a specially created group in Telegram. There are rumors that the link to it is in the description to the video. So, what should we do when you got a copy of the game somewhere with the already installed assembly?

Unpacking the archive in any convenient place, but. If you are installed on android, it is better to unpack in Android/OBB (as the game files will not clog the gallery and the player). And if you want to install the game on a PC, then first of all, make sure that your version of the game is not installed on Source. If still the original, then you are not interested in the first folder in the archive, but its contents. All that is in Xash you should unpack in the root folder from Half-Life.

We go further. If you play PC, then on this I can say goodbye to you. You only need to start the junction. For android users, everything is slightly more complicated. You need to find xash3d “somewhere”.APK and install it. If you need VR, then accordingly install XASHVR.APK.

Next, you need to specify the path of game files in the application. Accordingly, the place where you previously unpacked the game (for example, Android/OBB).

If you are the owner of a gamepala from Xbox or PlayStation, as well as virtual reality glasses for Android, then you need to set the confing file for your gamepad in the root of the game. You will have to find it yourself, but there are not confirmed rumors that you can get such information in the same place as everything else.

I want to finish the article on Sim. Thank you for getting acquainted with the material and I hope it was interesting to at least read about how two tenders without a personal life spent a month to work with graphics in the game to slightly improve the quality of mobile gaming. Play the classics, before communication ..

Special appeal to Ivan Loev. I make my sincere apologies for not correcting the previous article. The reason for such a sin is the loss of the script, in connection with which – the need to re -write a text, but already for the article.