Sci-Fi Trooper

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7 Responses to “Sci-Fi Trooper”

1. piece on November 2nd, 2007 2:08 pm

   sci-fi trooper? He’s from Half-Life 2. Go buy it.

2. Jasper4 on November 2nd, 2007 2:16 pm

   combine trooper ftw

3. Jimmed on November 2nd, 2007 2:32 pm

   This picture made my trigger finger twitch ¬_¬

   Also, great costume tbh

4. Synfyre on November 2nd, 2007 2:34 pm

   I LOL’d pretty hard, that’s my current background.

   that ain’t a costume

5. Hepathos on November 2nd, 2007 2:56 pm

   That’s no costume, it’s a space station!

   No wait, just some Garry’s mode and photoshop.

6. POLYONYMOUS on November 2nd, 2007 4:30 pm

   It’s not Garry’s mod. It’s the model exported out of the engine and rendered against a photographic background. It’s an HDR test. That’s why the lighting matches from the real world environment onto the low polygon (lower quality) character model.

7. Excelsior on November 2nd, 2007 7:44 pm

   It was from a thread on the Gmod forums back in 2004, The subject of HDR was brought up with the coming Lost Coast expansion. Someone posted a tutorial, and soon a bunch of people were trying it out. This was one of the pictures posted.

   The technique involves using something like those garden orbs that are very reflective, then special software is used to analyze the light sources in the scene, and apply them to the model.

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