Progress made so far news - Tolik's Adventures mod for Half-Life 2

So, first what i want to talk about is why the mod is taking so long to finish, the reason for this is the country i live in and its mean neighbour who likes to play with rockets, to put simply - i barely have time to do something in hammer cuz of electricity problems we have here. But that's not the only reason, the second reason is because sometimes Hammer and source engine makes me so angry and exhausted with its bugs and limitations that it makes me drop all the work and don't open hammer for 2 weeks or more.

• Facial Animations

Maybe the title isn't the most astonishing one, but hey, seeing talking characters in mods is always cool, right? I'm still trying to improve my hlfaceposer skills to create better facial animations, of course this programm is pretty unstable and crashes a lot, but it's not a big deal, it takes like 5 seconds to restart it. Here's a little sneak peak of an unfinished conversation with 2 thugs on a test map where they talk about Tolik's (Player) attack on one of their their bases.

Of course, it would be better if I left a video here and not images, but as I said, this scene is unfinished and it contains only 2 short sentences.

• Custom Subtitles

An also, Tolik's Adventures will support custom subtitles for 3 different languages (English, Russian and Ukrainian) here's an example:

I think it's much better alternative to subtitles from my previous mod which weren't even normal HL2-like subtitles, it was just a game_text entity.

• Reworked 3D Skyboxes

I'm going to be honest, my old 3D skyboxes suck, so I reworking every 3D skybox on every map.

That's all I have for today, currently right now i'm busy fixing bugs on finished maps and working on new map for the mod. See yall later.