Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Stunning Half-Life 2 High-Res Skin Pack

Half-Life 2 Files is hosting a stunning high-resolution skin pack that updates skins of most NPC's in HL2 (Alyx, Barny, Mossman, Dr. Kleiner, Police, Soldiers, Vortigaunts etc). Furthermore it even has some body textures replaced as well. The facemaps of the main characters are coming with full 2048 x 2048 pixels facemaps - all others civilians/squad-members with 1024 x 1024 pixels. This is because, you'll never get close enought to the civilians or squad-members to see the full resolution of a massive 2048px texture. Even a 1024px facemap needs at least a 1600 x 1200 game-resolution to take full effect. Remember: You'll never get the full quality of the textures below a 1600 x 1200 game-resolution.

The skin pack is made by Fakefactory and at latest version 1.04 its a 74MB download. The author however promises future updates including Hi-Res props and Hi-Res tiles to be released as a separate package after Valve's release of the Aftermath expansion. This is a definitive download recommendation!

You may also want to try Fakefactory's other skin packs:
Half-Life 2 Fakefactory's Hi-Res Weapon Pack Part 1
Half-Life 2 Fakefactory's Hi-Res Airboat & Buggy Skins

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