>>13736In case anybody interested - evolution of HECU soldeirs models from Half-Life.
1.Original Half-Life soldier models. Pretty low poly and sometimes pretty funny, I'd say. Black marine guy that smoking is head from cuted model of cool sergant with gatling, when his model was scrapped because was not serious enough for more final desighn concepts. I like original half life faces textures, they drawed in some... kinda strage way. Most of this faces in later games and addons and models will mostly be redone to level when they not recognisable - like barney, for example. For their animations, complections and overall look in-game they always reminded me "ninja turtles with guns"
2.Models from Oppsoing Force - OF, since it centered around soldeirs, redesighned them in slightly more high detail and there also much more variation exept this four, like two guys (medic and engeneer) I posted above. Possibly, the best model varaints in my opinion. Yes if you get close they slightly done in different style from way valve did original HL1, but this is in all aspects really better - more detail, more elements of equipment that much more logically look like some real life military equipment, and faces look like faces, but yet that still have proper detalisation to not be out of place from Half Life level of detail and engine capibilities.
3.So called High defenition pack - HD pack is something that run by default in steam versions of games, trought you can now disable it from menu and I recommnd to do so. I not in any way fan of this "HD" pack. Initially, this was moldes from cancelled Dreamcast port of half life made by Gearbox same as opposing force... but there they for some reason started really experement with models, changed style and other elements of overall look. This models was kinda improved and then relised on PC as this "HD" pack that features new weapons models and new npc models and come together with blue shift (blue shift was meant to be exclusive dreamcast content campain originaly). In case of NPCs - HECU included, I don't like new style, new faces and they feels way overdetaled for HL1 detalisation level and with vanilla limited animations that just looks like some kind of bad "hd mod" made by some fan. There is example of awesome very detailed models for goldsource that looks organic, but this example is clearly not of them.
4.Playstation 2 port models - PS2 port with it's excusive pack "decay" featuring a lot more improved model with this new style, and HD pack models was even more improved there. There was kinda updated version of engine that gearbox will lately use in their james bond game, also for models was made more animations and new "bones" - they finnaly can rotate eyes and blink, more smooth talk animations and so on made them a little bit more organic. And because there was updated even more models and objects on map, it look really more organic. However, I may say that I find their style even less appealing than HD pack one. So my favorite remian OF ones, if someone can properly made them more HD but same time more organic, it'd be really cool.
>>13736In case anybody interested - evolution of HECU soldeirs models from Half-Life.
1.Original Half-Life soldier models. Pretty low poly and sometimes pretty funny, I'd say. Black marine guy that smoking is head from cuted model of cool sergant with gatling, when his model was scrapped because was not serious enough for more final desighn concepts. I like original half life faces textures, they drawed in some... kinda strage way. Most of this faces in later games and addons and models will mostly be redone to level when they not recognisable - like barney, for example. For their animations, complections and overall look in-game they always reminded me "ninja turtles with guns"
2.Models from Oppsoing Force - OF, since it centered around soldeirs, redesighned them in slightly more high detail and there also much more variation exept this four, like two guys (medic and engeneer) I posted above. Possibly, the best model varaints in my opinion. Yes if you get close they slightly done in different style from way valve did original HL1, but this is in all aspects really better - more detail, more elements of equipment that much more logically look like some real life military equipment, and faces look like faces, but yet that still have proper detalisation to not be out of place from Half Life level of detail and engine capibilities.
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