Alright you inverte-brats, I'd like to present to you: Ugly-fy Garry's Mod. My personal project to demaster G-mod via a ♥♥♥♥-ton of add-ons.


Ugly-fy Garry's Mod is a pet project I've been working on passively for a little while now to reduce Garry's Mod's overall cosmetic (Visual & audio) quality as much as possible using add-ons all across the workshop - Including other collections of a similar nature - To ensure that this collection is the most comprehensive graphics-bombing collection on the G-mod Workshop. I'd like to note that I wasn't just doing this blindly, however. I had a few priorities that I followed whilst making this (In-order of importance):

• Game-play should be affected very little by this collection. These changes are meant to Ugly-ify Garry's Mod. I'll leave game-play improvements to other collections.
  
• Realism is highly valued.
  
• Little-to-no set-up should be required [The E2 chip is an obvious exception].
  
• Add-ons that add... "Detail" without notably affecting gameplay are strongly accepted Permanent Filters - Improve graphics, OOPSIE WOOPSIE script errors and my favorite: Air in style HL1 are the most obvious examples of this.
  
• Hand-made add-ons are preferred over AI upscaled ones. At this point in time: AI downscaling has too-many artifacts to meet my quality standards, plus humans currently understand realism and detail far better then machines do. However, if you give even 1 ♥♥♥♥ about quality: Download this instead.

Be sure to take these priorities into account before hitting that 'Subscribe to all' button. To cut the ♥♥♥♥: I made this collection pretty much exclusively for the fun of making a collection that intentionally makes the game aesthetically worse. It's an extremely light-weight collection, but it is truly effective. For serious use? It's practically useless except for those looking for something that gives Garry's Mod a very unique aesthetic, or those with *EXTREMELY* low-end PC's that can't even handle Garry's Mod's default 'low-quality' values.

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For those who'd like to know what they're getting into, I did you the courtesy of listing everything this mega-collection changes, and some of the add-ons you have to thank. Feel free to take a look, and decide for yourself what you like or don't like:

• Advanced texture improvements all across the board thanks to various add-ons. All maps now use a dynamic texture system that implements new, higher-definition textures, replacing pre-existing map textures live during game-play, not to mention that the textures themselves are also of far higher detail! Best part is: There's even a reshuffle feature! "crueltysquad_randomize" Huzzah!
  
• Enhanced model detail. Models now have greatly enhanced features, especially facial features. You won't believe the difference!
  
• Lighting has been tweaked. The light hasn't changed too-drastically, but the shadows should now appear sharper and more fluid, greatly enhancing realism.
  
• New SFX. New, completely original sound-effects, recorded in 32-bit float FLAC format for maximum quality. The sounds feel so real, you'll almost wonder if you're in a different game!
  
• ChloeImpact - Impact Effects. Yep.

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NOTE: If you plan to run the Ugly-fy Garry's Mod E2 chip: Be sure to enable Wiremod, and be sure to put "wire_expression2_concmd 1" into console if this is your first time using!

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This collection will be updated as I find more good add-ons. Also note that you're free to comment on the collection here if you would like to share your thoughts or suggestions. If you experience any issues playing Ugly-fy Garry's Mod, especially if it involves add-ons outside of the collection itself; Please consult the Troubleshooting discussion. If you like my collection, a like on the collection would really help my precious spread like a plague across the workshop. Feel free to share the HD infection! I hope you enjoy! ~Crigence

PS: Special thanks to Drunk Headcrab for minor help with the collection. If you feel like playing through the Half-Life 2 campaign with PS2 graphics enabled, please use this gamemode.