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Vanilla Desert Rifle on L4D1 M16 Animations (Alt Reload)

The following mod replaces the default Desert Rifle's animation with a port of the L4D1 M16 animations by yours truly, with an extra twist.

The idea and goal of this mod are pretty simple, to try and add something to the vanilla M16 reload so that when you apply this animset to this specific weapon you don't get a super slow reload just to compensate for the reload time but rather you get an extension to it so that it feels more natural.

To achieve this I tried to think like TRS would have back in the day (maybe), for example they wouldn't have a flashy reload animation showing both sides of the weapon, instead they would probably only show the front side while doing this action as the back side would have less detail on it, they would also try to make an animation that focuses on keeping the flashlight pointing forward for better visibility in dark hallways, I have also animated the wire for the flashlight so that it visibly distorts when your playermodel grabs / lets go of the weapon.

In the end this is the final result and this took a couple days to make, and I think it came out looking nicely, a neat little experiment.

All animations are timed to work perfectly online, and as well as this I've patched up that ugly gap you see in the grip in the viewmodel, and I've also edited the world model a bit to change some of the ugly details / oversights it had.

If you wish to take any assets from this mod feel free to do so, you do not need to ask for permission, just please give me credit for it. This being said please don't make commissions out of this either, thank you. (If you do borrow content from this add-on I recommend you check this page every now and again, sometimes I come back and push an update if something bugs me post-release).

Credits:

• Valve -- Model and textures.
  
• Turtle Rock Studio -- Animations.