Alien Grunt from Black Mesa G-Modified

[Pax]

This is the Alien Grunt from Black Mesa Source tweaked to be more useful for Gmod posing. I thought to myself, "Why should the human soldiers get all the GMOD love?" So here's a lovable member of the Xenian forces to help with any Half-Life universe screenshotting.

[IMG]http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad108/Paximus/agruntvariety.jpg[/IMG]

It has:
-skingroups for the 3 different model skins in BMS
-bodygrouped armor and bodies
-face posing
-finger posing (-ish. Claw/finger/mandible-posing)
-eye posing (3 of 'em!)

[IMG]http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad108/Paximus/agruntfingerandfaceposing.jpg[/IMG]

I don't think this is compatible with anything that makes the grunt an NPC or anything like that. Does, however, feature alien ass.

[IMG]http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/ad108/Paximus/agruntass.jpg[/IMG]

Credit to the Black Mesa: Source team's modellers and concept guys for awesome work.

My first ever upload for Garry's Mod. Let me know if something doesn't work.
Enjoy!

[URL="http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=132683"]http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=132683[/URL]

UPDATE 10/4: Uploaded a fix for the neck seams/gaps and added some missing textures for if you don't have Black Mesa installed -> [URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/110652898/BMS%20Alien%20Grunt%20v2%20hotfix.zip"]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/110652898/BMS%20Alien%20Grunt%20v2%20hotfix.zip[/URL]

[-Rusty-]

Incoming sex poses.

[TheFallen(TF2)]

I think that it was pretty resourceful to make bodygroups for the armor and the weapons, it'll be great for posing if you ask me.

[bloodwail]

nice but check your skin groups I'm getting a mix match of skin's. light heads dark body's and the other way around to

[Pax]

[QUOTE=bloodwail;37899088]nice but check your skin groups I'm getting a mix match of skin's. light heads dark body's and the other way around to[/QUOTE]

The default Black Mesa agrunt has 3 body skins and 2 head skins. My version cycles the 3 body skins with the first head skin, then through the 3 with the 2nd head.

The way it's distributed in default BMS is the first model has body skin 1 + head skin 1, the second model has body skin 2 and head skin 1, and the third (the naked, unarmed version), uses body skin 3 and head skin 2.

I decided to cycle through everything to maximus flexibility. Some combinations look better than others, depending on lighting and stuff.

[oogaboogaman]

Awesome stuff.

[TheMask]

unfortunately there's a huge hole in the neck ... could you fix this?

[Pax]

[QUOTE=TheMask;37901228]unfortunately there's a huge hole in the neck ... could you fix this?[/QUOTE]

There was a seam already in the unarmored Black Mesa version, and I wasn't going to worry about that as I didn't want to go mucking around with the meshes themselves that much, but I see now that simply moving the head creates a GIGANTIC gap, even on the armored versions, so I guess I should fix that.

I'll probably have time later today to get that done. Any other problems anyone's found?

[Pax]

Updated the OP with the fix for the neck seams.

Or just click here! -> [URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/110652898/BMS%20Alien%20Grunt%20v2%20hotfix.zip"]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/110652898/BMS%20Alien%20Grunt%20v2%20hotfix.zip[/URL]

[Katra804]

The only other issue that I've personally found is that the rigging seems a tad stiff. The model itself is still able to be worked with, but posing is a bit annoying.