Here’s a slight diversion: a L4D2 beta skin… sorta. It’s more like a L4D1 beta skin restored in L4D2, using a model from The Last of Us ported into the game by Ada Wong.
For comparison, here’s an early L4D1 screenshot featuring the original “beta” medkit.
Rather than try for a 100% accurate restoration, I geared more towards how the first aid kit would probably look if it were kept up until the retail product, so no hideous texture stretching or low-poly models to be seen here.
I don’t know why I lingered on fixing this mod for so damn long, all it took was extracting the original broken VPK, then just re-VPKing it using the correct program. The reason why this mod broke in the first place was because for whatever reason I used L4D2’s “vpk.exe” instead of the one made for TF2. Well anyways, here it is.
EDIT: Decided to also go back and update the Branding Iron and the Beta-Style Bat Outta Hell to the VPK format.
Get it here!
Re-install Player VMTs and Spy skin to update.
After about a half hour of warping to the Spy’s armbands, I managed to get them pretty much a perfect circle like the other class’ armbands:
Because of how odd the textures map to Spy’s arms, the texture ended up looking like this:
I also adjusted Spy’s cigarette to be more like a real cigarette(that brown just looked really odd to me). This makes his cigarette match the disguise case cigarette more:
The next update will also fix the Triad Trinket’s colors to better match the beta color scheme. This update should roll out sometime this week!
Go to the Beta Skin List to get all these glorious fixes! Simply reinstall every class skin, then reapply the Player VMTs!
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