After 3 years, I've created a brand new and improved gasmask citizen model! This swanky fellow comes complete with working eyes, facial flexes, soles, can blink, and even has a female variant with a new facial texture made by yours truly! My lovely new citizen.mdl can be downloaded from here: gamebanana.com/mods/327768
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"Leaning against the crude workbench as if it were a crutch, half in shadow, was his mentor from Black Mesa and, before that, MIL Dr. Kleiner looked even more weathered than Barney. He wore an eyepatch over his left eye, and that side of his face was a mass of twisted scar tissue." -Marc Laidlaw's description of Dr Kleiner from the short story "Old Friends." Yes, wrong eye. Will fix it at some point.
A quick draw-over of that piece from Raising the Bar that I did for the Breaking The Bar event.
While looking into some of the Portal assets leaked from Portal Project Beta, I found that an early version of Chell, not seen anywhere, was in the files in its entirety, as well as even earlier textures from the temporary model, showing that it originally just used Eric's head texture. Here are all of Chell's Portal 1 models in order.
First post, let's make it a fun fact: The Metrocop found in the Final Hours of Half-Life Alyx uses notably different, significantly earlier textures than its final variant. Here's a side by side comparison between the two.
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