Use curves or contrast to bring it out. Best to keep everything else on separate layers for control, especially grunge.
By the way you shouldn't rely on overlays when you are texturing in such a fashion, brush your own grunge and you will be much more happy with the results :}
here follow this quick little blurb :}
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awesome work OL, the large stain in the middle needs to be lowered in opacity tho and as well might want to go easy on a colors just a bit :}
http://www.sourceblog.org might have some tutorials you are looking for :]
Made some sweet tutorials :] 
hessi
has a sweet avatar 
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probably will be mainstream and made arcady for more sales 
Has anyone seen this hl1 mod? looks amazing i just hope they release an English version :} It looks like Stalker with a more linear storyline :}
amazing art work imo for hl1!
http://paranoia.level-design.ru/index_eng.htm
and a greyscale trailer:
http://mods.moddb.com/4961/paranoia/
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Worked on They hunger :}
i remember restarting the "worlds collide" mission on one of the half life games millions of times 
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that was generated in like 5 seconds
:] this program is a life saver
rofl DOOM 3 and FEAR both have nothing on this game. i had to span it out because i was getting just freaked. the thing that makes it scary is the atmosphere, its constantly eerie without pushing it to the limit. Doom 3 had a 5 second spook thing where a monster would pop up every 5 seconds, FEAR was predictable with its music changing when something scary was about to happen. In Stalker you never know when something freaky is going to happen unless your going for some documents in an underground facility
Awesome game totally worth the buy!
lol thats good news
i guess epic has no problem with telling a blatant lie 
yeah the war torn approach you took doesnt look that good more less looks like filter sponge even tho its not >:
mafia :] makes you appreciate the fact you can go 100km/h
fabric looks like he is wearing cords ;o due to how straight the fabric is, try making it look a little rougher with more twists ands turns and try not to use the texturizer filter as its not a good representation of fabric. as well turn on 100% illum when rendering it on the model, this will help you skin shadows and wrinkles much better.
edit: im pretty sure you have seen this but i always use this as a reference in steps to take when skinning player or anything with cloth http://www.sourceblog.org/images/polygon/basepoly.jpg
reminds me of a millenia gun skin ( http://fan34.free.fr/upload/up/mill_rug ... render.jpg ) good thing for props so good job, not so good for guns
looks nice with the destroyed interiors but needs more debris, a wall that was broken doesn't leave a clean floor. good design overall tho gj!
dude give me the walk through on getting the hurg i need it for level 39
O_O THAT IS TOO MANY GAMEZ D:!
i wonder what it would be like if mapcore + NES merged D:
