Half-Life 2 Enhancement Mod - Games

[QUOTE=SFC3;38531960]No! Keep film grain optional![/QUOTE] Ok, got it. I also got another pic: [B]THEY STARE INTO YOU'RE [I]SOUL[/I]![/B] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/iIwt5.jpg[/img_thumb]

whats always creeped me out about gman is how fucked up his eye placement is. I guess that's intentional.

[QUOTE=MightyMax;38532562]whats always creeped me out about gman is how fucked up his eye placement is. I guess that's intentional.[/QUOTE] Wow, I never noticed it until now.

[QUOTE=IM BATMAN;38531891]Yeah, the biggest part to me was the fact that they were releasing the source to everything. Even if it's dead, they should still release whats done of it.[/QUOTE] Development was slow even back when I was on the team. I think it was ambitious in creating the best shaders possible and finding a way to shove them into a single game. It was a huge game of trial and error and I think it eventually just became a testing ground for trying out new things while trying to keep a serious atmosphere with the mod.

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;38532433]Ok, got it. I also got another pic: [B]THEY STARE INTO YOU'RE [I]SOUL[/I]![/B] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/iIwt5.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Barney is like "Hey, I like staring contests!" Also anyone noticing Barney's hypnotizing eyes?

I made a [URL="http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/10/9576/gear_parallax_test0010.jpg"]subsurface scattered skin shader[/URL] for the source engine a while back while working on C17 Episode 1; you guys want it? Only requirement is the source shader editor. It's pretty easy to add. Comes in cheap 2-sample and expensive 6-sample (Intro GMan only?). Our intent was always to release the source code for City 17 after it's release so all those crazy shaders could actually be used, so since it's on hiatus consider this release to the community as a preview. That decision is part of why we sort of became a tech demo. We wanted to give the community a better SDK than what was already available from Valve. Anyways, I'm not always on these forums, so add me on Steam if you want that shader for this mod, and maybe I'll throw you guys a few more as well. I'd love to see all the work we did finally go to use somewhere.

Woah dude that's, like, deep man

Small update: I fiddled with G-man's face texture a bit more, I'm now contented with it. I also screwed around with his eyes a bit more, and added a few blemishes on his face on the normal map. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/boCDx.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/H7BPP.jpg[/img_thumb] We're also about to put SSS into the mod, along with Parallax Occlusion mapping, thanks to 1/4 Life and GearDev!

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;38543744]Small update: I fiddled with G-man's face texture a bit more, I'm now contented with it. I also screwed around with his eyes a bit more, and added a few blemishes on his face on the normal map. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/boCDx.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/H7BPP.jpg[/img_thumb] We're also about to put SSS into the mod, along with Parallax Occlusion mapping, thanks to 1/4 Life and GearDev![/QUOTE] Now THAT looks sexy. Or about as sexy as a creepy old alien-human-thing in a blue business suit can look, really.

[QUOTE=Marcolade;38544194]Now THAT looks sexy. [B]Or about as sexy as a creepy old alien-human-thing in a blue business suit can look, really.[/B][/QUOTE] [I]Damn[/I] sexy.

Yep that looks MUCH better. I can finally say I'd be happy to see that ingame. Maybe could do with a tad more darkness around the eyes but otherwise it'll suit perfectly :)

[QUOTE=Marcolade;38544194]Now THAT looks sexy. Or about as sexy as a creepy old alien-human-thing in a blue business suit can look, really.[/QUOTE] i'm getting a real hl2 beta feel from the second screen

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;38543744] We're also about to put SSS into the mod, along with Parallax Occlusion mapping, thanks to 1/4 Life and GearDev![/QUOTE] Please don't overuse the POM, there are practical places for it; but be selective about it. The best places to use it are where the textures are large, and have parts that would be perf expensive to actually model, but worth it enough to add POM. Some of the best places to use it have been used as examples (By 1/4 Life himself), such as the brick texture in nova prospect, and the ceiling texture that has large indents.

This mod has so much potential, I can't handle it If you guys need someone for advertising when it's nearing completion, please contact me. I do graphic design and videography type stuff. I hope this makes it to completion! Also, that Gman face is sexy as hell.

Really looking forward to see future of this project, I remember earlier back when the thread just opened weeks ago, it wasn't anything too special with some unfitting and flat looking re-textures and what not, now we have a pretty great looking Barney & G-man. Can't wait to see this and the Update 3.0 mod finished, really would love to get blown away by Half-Life 2 again like 2004.

Once work gives me a break ill start making more models but right now ive been flat out.

Some new pics of Barney, and also showing off the finished eyes. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/sdgGa.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/xpXHm.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Mp04G.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/zJfZh.jpg[/img_thumb] Evil Barney in pic 3! I'll take some more pics once we have SSS up and working.

chin down eyes up

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;38567224]Some new pics of Barney, and also showing off the finished eyes. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/xpXHm.jpg[/img_thumb] Evil Barney in pic 3! I'll take some more pics once we have SSS up and working.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/183/Cupcake_Dog.jpg[/img]

Those first two pictures of Barney's eyes are fucking weird. The third one actually looks pretty nice though, probably because he doesn't have some awkward blank stare on his face.

YES! Those eyes are PERFECT. That's exactly what I was trying to get at... now it looks like a perfect high detail Barney!

Just as a reminder, try to remember you're not gonna be playing with a picture of every character on a second screen. Not that any of you have been to critical imo, but just watch out it doesn't end up in nitpicking.

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;38567224] [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Mp04G.jpg[/img_thumb] Evil Barney in pic 3![/QUOTE] "Just come here Gordon, I'll show you something."

Damn, that Barney looks bloody fantastic!

[QUOTE=Marcolade;38568886]Those first two pictures of Barney's eyes are fucking weird. The third one actually looks pretty nice though, probably because he doesn't have some awkward blank stare on his face.[/QUOTE] Yeah, even with the default skin Barney looked kinda creepy when he wasn't talking or moving around.

Looks incredible! I can't wait to see what you're gonna do with the other characters.

New pics of WIP skins. Alyx: [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/NxQ08.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/IxhpC.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/IMcTU.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/sabBV.jpg[/img_thumb] Kleiner: [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/MNWZM.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ugHWt.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/0QcC9.jpg[/img_thumb] Critiques really help with developing these skins, so please tell me what should be changed/added/removed/or completely redone!

The alyx looks good the kliener looks a bit low res compared to your other face skins. Also Klieners tear duct looks pretty large looking.

Actually, I think Alyx looks a bit more blurry (her forehead and the area around the mouth could use a little more detail). Kleiner looks great, it's just the low-res frames of his glasses that make it seem like that. In any case, those are coming along great, keep it up! Also, in my opinion, [I]completely[/I] re-modelling the characters is unecessary. The heads are fine as they are, it's some of the bodies that need to be redone as some of them are painfully low-poly, like the G-man's suit, the citizen's bodies and some Combine units like the CPs and Overwatch.

I think Kleiner looks good, but Alyx looks kind of blurry in some areas.