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RTB Concept Art Inspired Soldiers

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5/13/25: big update, read change notes for new stuff (i have to make new screenshots kill me)

I present to you a reimagining/remake of my first 3 reskins. What else is there to say?

A lot, actually.

These guys have been in the making for a while and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. It took hours, days to finish these because of personal issues and setbacks while making them (I believe I started working on the textures on the 19th of April) but I'm proud of them and I think these are some of my best work yet.

When I made my first 3 reskins I figured it would just be a one-time thing and I wouldn't do Source engine retexturing or anything like that ever again, but it was extremely fun and the support I got from a few people was enough to motivate me to continue making these, so thanks to everyone who supported these dumb reskins lol.

Anyway enough sappy stuff, time to get onto the actual content.

First and foremost, the soldiers helmet/gasmasks textures have been changed and look smoother compared to the normal helmets. This is because I used the female Combine gasmask texture from HL2:S and just pasted it onto their head. I didn't think it would work but it looked good so I kept it. (They also use the torso texture from that model as well.) The filters for the gasmask have also been changed to resemble some concept art of the Overwatch Soldiers with different helmets, you know the one. Also, all the soldiers have the "890" patch on their back. I made it a bit smaller to be less in the way.

Standard Soldiers are now a brownish-green with a dark blue camo enveloping them, with blue eyes and headsets. They also have a triangle logo instead of the normal circle-triangle one.

Shotgunners are now a swampy green, black, and orange mix and I replaced their armband with a red and yellow "80" to match my inner-city and outer-city reskins.

Prison Guards are now a deep, orangey-red color with a green armband and shoulder logo. For some reason Valve didn't change their headset colors to be white so the standard Prison Guard would have a green headset instead of a yellow one. I went back and fixed it by making the texture white instead.

The Elites are now an ever-so-slightly darker, greyish color and sport a light red "17" logo on their arm instead of the skull. They also have no skull logo on the back of their neck armor.

The Stripped Soldiers look mostly the same with the exception of their pants armor being different and their feeding port being red instead of yellow.

Another thing to note is that when any soldiers die, their eyes will go black. Thanks to Soutrim for writing the .vmt code I used to make the eyes go black.

If you want to, you can get the older versions here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3446186743


Valve, for the original textures.

Soutrim, for bits and peices of the alpha channel as well as .vmt code I referenced when working on the soldiers eyes, alpha channels, and other bits.

Enri M. Louvre, for the camo pattern I sorta kinda maybe traced over for the soldiers.

Me, for the edits and everything else.

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