Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead 2

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(Vanilla Reshade) Valve Melee Texture/Reflection Fix
   
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Game Content: Weapons, Textures
Weapons: Melee
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31.159 MB
3 Mar, 2022 @ 3:18pm
27 May, 2022 @ 7:13pm
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(Vanilla Reshade) Valve Melee Texture/Reflection Fix

Description
Follow up to the guns remake, this is the melees remake, this mod uses valve existing textures to their fullest potential giving all the melees a similar treatment and if said assets were missing, they were re-created in the same way Valve has.

Compatible with re-textures but not recommended due to exponents relying on vanilla diffuses, creating oddities in the reflections. You can download this mod and expect no conflict unless vanilla VMTs are replaced.

What makes it worthwhile over other mods? The lack of reliance on user generated $bumpmap for most weapons which can create unwanted displacements, this instead re-uses the original diffuse alpha channels for reflection which really reduces filesize greatly while fixing the excessive use of env_map which creates this unusual glowing effect in dark areas.

There is a video up however I would recommend to see in-game for yourself so that you don't miss out on what it really is depending on the settings.

Find the version for guns here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2759164917

I will not be doing other objects since most of their assets are really bad to work with, you're better off getting yog's reborn stuff.
16 Comments
Shao  [author] 6 Sep, 2024 @ 9:38am 
Its been so long I can't remember what was wrong with it.
Солiдни Рома 6 Sep, 2024 @ 7:25am 
does it fix the katana texture?
Shao  [author] 12 Aug, 2024 @ 2:21pm 
Due to valve inconsistency with the files, I took it upon myself to properly set them up with anything that could be missing or not done right. I didn't bother to look if Rocky did them any better with the Last Stand update.
PeopleLikeStuff 12 Aug, 2024 @ 12:48am 
Why does the VPK contain all the vanilla melee textures?
Johnny Weakhand 31 Aug, 2023 @ 10:09pm 
truly thx,this is just what i need
Shao  [author] 10 Sep, 2022 @ 10:48am 
Yeah i'm not as content with them, it's already extremely low and thus doesn't leave much option.
BoxOfMysteriez 9 Sep, 2022 @ 9:30pm 
The chainsaw and knife still seem overly shiny but other than that this is a great addition
Shao  [author] 1 Jun, 2022 @ 11:42am 
Yeah, I cannot allow myself to use it since it would conflict with unrelated mods.
Lil Ghork 1 Jun, 2022 @ 3:11am 
I think it would change the model QC because it changes the UV mapping for the Katana.
Shao  [author] 25 May, 2022 @ 11:56am 
Also I'll have to look but by mention of UV fix this might mean newer model which would interfere with reanimations and such.