Barney's Tales Mod for Half-Life 2 HECU Soldier image

The amazing detail is jaw dropping! Nice the polycount must be incredible!

Shouldn't he be wearing his 'Powered Combat Vest'? either way, it is an excellent model.

those legs are way too short. And personally, Theres a lot of exaduration with the wrinkles on the cloth/vest and pants. Beyond that this is probably one of the best player models i've seen for any mod (including black mesa). Keep up the amazing work!

Awesome, but the PCV is missing.

this is better then anything Valve has ever made

Thanks guys.
2Thestjester nope. Legs are ok. I'm sure about that. :)
2xxghostkillxx 8 millions
2ChromeAngel Zbrush 3
About PCV, yeah, we're working about that. :)
Actually there will be about 4 different types of heads (not faces) and some different types of bodies. Therefore, if vary them, it will turn out about 10 kinds of grunts. :)

Awesomely detailed, nice one Ultemate. I hope he doesn't need o be too shiny to make that hard work show up. Zbrush? Mudbox or what?

He reminds me of ActionMan ^^ I kinda like it, but it seems a bit like hes wearing leather clothes : !

2Kester You need to be more informed before wrote something or even critique, otherwise your words do not cause anything except a smile.
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Yeah. Now that I think about it, tacoo is pretty right on the spot.

haha, Black Mesa grunt got pwned! good job guys, this is some awesome work!

beyond brilliant... so much detail... I hope most of it translates well into the normal map for the low poly model in Source... amazing...

Hmm.....isnt he wearing any body armor? All I see is the Load Bearing Vest. Maybe you should add some body armor vest so its looking more authentic

Just an obscene amount of detail... awesome work. :D

pointless amount of detail on the model, even as a normal map, it's ridiculously creased and folded etc. It looks like he's wearing a loose latex condom on himself.

Maybe less folds on his uniform, otherwise, it looks great! You should enter it into high poly competitions on modelling websites.

Hmmm....extremely nice...BUT...What's gonna happen with the grunts which you guys made earlier?
I hope you won't discard those because those were great to man!!! I especially like their helmets back
then, they looked very professional!

8 million damn! But don't worry the new rig I'm building will handle that smoothly. This model is perfect man, You've really over done yourself! And with the P.C.V. It will look even more amazing!

Yeah, the PCV I was talking about. So, will he also get ACUPAT Camo too? Then I always though that it where Marines they sent to Black Mesa and not Army guys (expect Black Ops, but they are from the CIA), so he would wear Desert MARPAT or the non-adopted Urban MARPAT. Anyway, the model sure looks awome, the details are amazing. Very well done.

Wrinkles don't pass for detail. Sorry, it doesn't look realistic.

Doesn't it bother him that his left knee guard slipped?... Joking... Awesome model!

His legs are to short, no question about it. It should be at least a boot longer (place the knee where the end of the pants are located).
About the wrinkles on his clothes, they aren't to many, but they are to big. try to scale them down (a lot). a marines pants should look plump, not like wet rubber.
As far as armor goes, his west needs to come out more of the jacket. It shouldn't look attached to it.
I understand where you were trying to go with the left knee-pad, but if you stick to it you have to follow through with it. It shouldn't be hanging by the calf, but by the ankle.
Same thing with the jacket sleeves. Either they go all over the glove (which by the way is a bit to large. Should be the size of his face) or they should be rolled up all the way to the elbows.

Besides that, it looks awesome. I especially dig his cap :D

I have to agree with both mikejkelley and tacoo. While at first glance it does look good there are too many ignored details, for instance, how come his vest has no thickness whatsoever? I have a combat vest, and they are far from thin). Why are his sleeves half way down his forearms. Why are his clothes wrinkled in places which don't seem to collaborate with how they should be hanging, or the equipment being worn on top.

Also, I'm kind of worried at the difficulty you are going to have with clipping when trying to animate this model.

I agree. And stop with the comments like "Black Mesa got pwned". I'm beginning to think the number one priority of these developers is to compete with the Black Mesa team. "Look, I can make mine with 3 million more polygons than you!". On that note, this grunt doesn't look nearly as realistic as Black Mesa's.

looks like gi joe :D

stickman is lying
this one looks better

"I'm beginning to think the number one priority of these developers is to compete with the Black Mesa team."
Keep thinking. If you think so, why don't you go to Black Mesa's profile and not disturb us?

Lovely work. As for some of the criticism list above, well the wrist looking attached could just be the angle render, the slipping knee guard looks good and going for total realism and putting it around his ankle would be impractical. Personally I think there are too many folds in the cloth but thats a personal taste issue not a mistake on your part. As for the length of the legs, If you have gone into this much detail I presume you have checked the model against anatomical reference so I believe you when you say they are right. I know I tend to exaggerate the legs on my models because comic book proportions are so prevalent in game characters. Clipping when animating could be an issue though.

You have upped the standard. I'm going to have fun trying to match the quality of this work.

Out of interest, what armour is this based on? As I haven't seen the US army use anything like this in a long time.

Oh and why the cap and helmet?

Perhaps you could link to a site that doesn't require a login?

Nevermind I was being dumb.

Sorry for the triple post, but I can't edit.

Ultemate, it seems you should be more informed, as you have provided me no proof that this vest is used by the US army. I never once disputed it was a real vest, just the fact I haven't seen the US use anything like this recently.

Perhaps you would like to provide a link for me detailing the US army's current use of the CCV. Until then stop trying to look intelligent.

Oh, the e-drama.

Fantastic model, hopefully you guys can make it look similar once in game. :)

Kester, on that site are shown american uniform, also you can watch "The Marksman" with Wesley Snipes ( Img.verycd.com ), it crap, but there soldiers wears something similar to this. Also half-life is going BEFORE 2007, and therefore before BDU and new combat uniforms like in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. ;)

2Forsete no problem ))

Actually HL1 is set this decade at an unknown date, therefore you are quite a liberty to use modern uniform, such as:
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You could use this grunt model as a team leader and previous model as a team ember

Well you have to think they were 'supposed' to be a quick reaction force so the LBV may have been all they needed so say have this as an early grunt you fight, perhapes later when they realized just how much shit hit the fan they put in units with full combat gear Kevlar and Flaks so say you fight the more prepared grunts later

so far this looks like the best blue shift. keep it up.

I'll be voting for this mod again, for the second round of the MOTY'S, as it looks just amazing, GOOD LUCK mate.....;)

Shit hot model, hope you can bake it on to a low poly successfully! :)

It's pretty good, detail-wise, but not even nearly as realistic as your old models. Plz use the old ones, they were a lot better.

insane render. COD4 quality. and for you guys sorrying about teh polys, just like in COD4, they couldve taken out polys and added textures and...fuck something else, i forgot the name of it. but it keeps the details way up, and the polys down.

All is good, except the ridiculous amount of creasing in the cloth. Have you ever seen real clothes on a human body before? Natace25s's comment about it looking like a man dressed in a giant latex condom was as accurate as it was hilarious.

*throws the ball back at Black Mesa team*

but really... awesome