A restoration of the camouflaged npc_combineelite is here!

[Jar of Flies]

Do you remember this cut enemy from Half-Life 2 that is commonly referred to as "an old version of the Combine Sniper"?

Well, as far as we know, it isn't actually a sniper unit. However, judging by the sniper rifle attached to his leaked version model, it is possible that at some point Valve planned to remake him into a sniper. He is actually an old version of the Combine Elite Soldier. His code is practically identical to the Combine Soldier's code, and the most significant difference is his increased health.

But this news entry is not about this; His original model has some very strange multicolored, mottled textures, that look more like placeholders. That being said, it appears that this is not the case.

VXP managed to fix the unit's camo code, and bring it to a fully working state. It appeared those textures are procedural, and they take a sample of the texture behind the Combine Elite and put them onto the camouflage pattern. You can see a demonstration of this mechanic in a working state in this video:

[Samuel_svk]

I already Have that old leaked one
and nice fixing!
dont stop!

[Nova]

Ooooh, I like it!