MGS4 camouflage suit

killingpeople

Does anyone have any technical information on how the MGS4 camouflage suit works?

here's a fun video displaying the stealth gameplay:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=48100

renderhjs

in an interview they once said that to come up with something special and that their first attempts didn´t worked out so well.
But unfortunately they didn´t explained how they did it in the end. My guess is that a collision sphere collects texture information from the surrounding objects and create a sample of that.
Or... mark all brush elements in the editor with camouflage ID´s pretty much like decal types in engines like Shogo or FEAR