Alpha Gordon Player Model by Ambient.Impact
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Some have dubbed this "Lumberjack Gordon" or "Ivan the Spacebiker".
Older gamers will recognize him as the original Gordon Freeman model,
from the (thankfully) scrapped alpha phase of Half-Life's development.
This model was thought to be locked away on some of VALVe's backup
files, never to see the light of day again. But, when VALVe introduced
Steam, a new file named "doctor.mdl" found its way into Half-Life's game
files. After some investigation, and a modified model viewer to view
the older file type, it was discovered that this was indeed the alpha
Gordon model.


Credits:

- original doctor.mdl by VALVe Software
- player model animations by VALVe and the Sven Co-op team
  (used in the Sven Co-op version)
- modified Half-Life Model Viewer (hlmv.exe) by Philip "prsearle" Searle
- thanks to "argo" from the HIT forums for sending me the decompiled
  Half-Life: Source version of this model


Tools used:

- MilkShape 3D 1.7.4
- LithUnwrap 1.3
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- studiomdl by VALVe
- Kratisto's Half-Life MDL Decompiler 1.2
- EditPad Lite
- Wavelength Palette Merge v1.0


Changes:

1.0 - May 29, 2005
- assigned mesh to the default Half-Life player skeleton
- cleaned up the mesh and combined several textures


Ambient.Impact
www.hl-improvement.com