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Vanilla Autoshotgun on L4D1 Animations (Dry Animations)

The following mod replaces the Autoshotgun with the animations from the first game, but with a different twist.

A mod like this has already been done before, the only difference is that this animation set here uses all of the "dry" animations from the first game. The original Left 4 Dead featured "empty" animations only for the shotguns if you depleted all the ammo, started a reload and then tried to switch to a different weapon to try and skip that empty reloading animation, if you then switched back to the shotguns a different animation would play along the original draw animation, this mod doesn't mix both of those animations together (as otherwise the animation would be too long) but it introduces the "empty" one as the draw animation and thus mixing up the animations into something that looks interesting, at least in my opinion.

This mod also fixes a couple other inconsistencies with the mesh and animations, like pulling the bolt no longer causes it to clip through the back of the gun, the shell no longer flies out of the weapon during the reload and also some faces on the front of the stock were created to patch a see-through hole that can only be seen during the melee animation.

This is compatible with sound mods and retextures, not compatible with mods that change the Autoshotgun in any other way.

If you wish to take any assets from this mod (like the animations) 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).

Please report any bugs you find!

Credits:

• Turtle Rock Studio -- Animations.
  
• Valve -- Model and Animations.
  
• Cuba -- Helping me out with figuring out how to blend the reload animations together, mod would look like doodoo without his help.