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Published: 2008-10-22 06:51:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1304; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 32
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Personally I'm very pleased with how this came out. I wanted to practice wavy hair, and those black spots are intentional. I was going for that "Debris in the wind" thing.Models:
Combine Guard: Valve\Neodement for conversion to retail
Rebel: Team Silent\Nexus_Elite for headhacking
Trigun Revolver: Teh Snake
Map: DM_Outlying_V2
Time in Photoshop: 2 hours
Done to: Black Sabbath - Iron Man
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Comments: 9
Combine Guard: "There's no way you can kill me whilst my special armour is over-protective! I'M FUCKIN INVINCIBLE!"
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Aren't you supposed to like, throw cars at it to kill it?
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Ohhh so that's his head never figure out the Beta models..
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Technically the model has two heads. The first is a human face which is recessed into the chest cavity with a mouthpiece. I assume it's for breathing. The second head is the part with the three blue lights.
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Is that combine guard an official model? I've never seen it before
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The Combine Guard is an official model from Valve. It never made it into the final version of the game, and for a time was only available in Beta format during the "HL2 leak" a few years ago.
Neodement from Facepunch Studios was able to re-rig it and convert it to retail source.
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Ah, OK.
Hmmm, you can sorta tell it's a beta model, it doesn't look as polished as the rest of the combine synths, does it?
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I wouldn't say as polished per say, but in Valve's "making of" book "Raising The Bar" it shows a lot of concept art and different takes of what the Combine Elite soldier was going to look like. There's one concept piece in particular that was very close to the model.
I'm guessing that at the time they were still fleshing out the look and feel of the Combine, and were trying out different styles and such. if you were to put this into the current game and it's episodes at this point, it would look too "Alien" and out of place.
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I notice it's colour scheme is similar to the Hunters. I wonder if, while designing the hunters, valve remembered these guys and brought the colour scheme forward.
Is the thing with the 3 blue lights it's head? It's hard to tell from the angle.
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