Half-Life 2: Enhancement Mod (V2) - Games

[QUOTE=fear me;39305167]Is the Enhancement Mod going to be released as a separate mod, or is it just going to be something you dump in your HL2 folder like a texture pack or whatever?[/QUOTE] Considering it's actually ported to another engine, I thought it was clear it was going to be a separate mod?

[QUOTE=Yourself;39305075]you know on the original xbox [video=youtube;VZV4W62Jw4U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZV4W62Jw4U[/video] it has a really nice echo effect is it possible to implement that kind of effect for the pc?[/QUOTE] Someone already did. And did it better at that. Sadly, I don't know what happened to the developers or the code. [video=youtube;MQt1jtDBNK4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQt1jtDBNK4[/video]

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;39305276]Considering it's actually ported to another engine[/QUOTE] Oh, I didn't realize that.

Suggestion to people who haven't already- Please read the OP! It explains stuff we're doing for the mod.

[QUOTE=Zay333;39305976]Someone already did. And did it better at that. Sadly, I don't know what happened to the developers or the code. [B]video[/B][/QUOTE] DAT TECH

[QUOTE=Zay333;39305976]Someone already did. And did it better at that. Sadly, I don't know what happened to the developers or the code. [video=youtube;MQt1jtDBNK4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQt1jtDBNK4[/video][/QUOTE] I looked through some of their videos, and they developed an amazing sound system as it seems, but they never released any source code or anything for it... :( It would really be wonderful to implement something like this in the mod, I'm going to contact them if they intend on releasing/sharing their code someday....

look in the website from the description [url]http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GSOUND/[/url]

[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;39302984][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/yNKkR6g.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/VBcGHvl.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] why do you have mipmaps disabled

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39307736]why do you have mipmaps disabled[/QUOTE] Because it's WIP. I don't like to use Mipmaps on WIP textures. The final one will be mipmapped though.

[QUOTE=xalener;39298700]Houndeye Stuff[/QUOTE] I'm really liking the mouth, a looot of people forget the mouth [QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;39301414]Very cool Houndeye design, but it doesn't look quite like one, and those front feet are really weird. The current model being developed: [img_thumb]http://www.abload.de/img/houndeditlwx16.png[/img_thumb] and my suggestions to the guy on what to change: [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/Ai8mfWZ.png[/img_thumb] Still needs to be made a bit thinner.[/QUOTE] I'm not a big fan of the "hooves" design, is that going to change at all? It just seems to make more sense as claws to me, sorry. And of course, don't forget the mouth on the underbelly! [QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;39304271][B]Read the OP please:[/B][/QUOTE] What exactly are the extents of these "secret areas"? Will they mainly be just easter eggs or will they add a whole new experience? And am I correct in assuming that you would need the Source SDK installed just to play this, similar to Black Mesa?

[QUOTE=ojcoolj;39308065]I'm not a big fan of the "hooves" design, is that going to change at all? It just seems to make more sense as claws to me, sorry. And of course, don't forget the mouth on the underbelly! What exactly are the extents of these "secret areas"? Will they mainly be just easter eggs or will they add a whole new experience? And am I correct in assuming that you would need the Source SDK installed just to play this, similar to Black Mesa?[/QUOTE] They do have toes, it's just you can't see them from that angle. Not sure if there's a mouth on it yet or not. They'd basically all be easter eggs, nothing really game-changing, except for having one or two of the theorised new weapons (Tau Cannon, Trip mine, and or Gluon Gun) and ammo for them (which will be scarce!). I don't know if you need the [I]Source[/I] SDK but you'll at least need the [I]alienswarm[/I] SDK. SDK.

Thank you very much for your replies, I can already tell its going to be amazing

Link to v1 thread pl0x?

[QUOTE=Swog;39308397]Link to v1 thread pl0x?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1216721[/url] -added to the OP too.

[QUOTE=Yourself;39305075]you know on the original xbox it has a really nice echo effect is it possible to implement that kind of effect for the pc?[/QUOTE] The original Xbox had hardware supported EAX that a lot of games at the time used. Dedicated hardware accelerated audio is sorta dead so unless you have a Creative sound card you can't get that kind reverb. It really sucks because it's awesome. It would be pretty cool if someone could get that Gsound solution working with Source though. Like, very cool.

[QUOTE=Yourself;39305075]you know on the original xbox [video=youtube;VZV4W62Jw4U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZV4W62Jw4U[/video] it has a really nice echo effect is it possible to implement that kind of effect for the pc?[/QUOTE] Yeah, we can look into it: source has its own DSP and sound echo occlusion system: we should be able to easily modify it. The echo is still there, but only partially: probably has to do with the soundscapes and visportals. [vid]http://static.glitchvid.com/videos/new/fp/breenspeech.mkv[/vid]

[QUOTE=SFC003 (Old thread)] maybe to make people confused, you can have an idle animation where gordon looks down his ironsights for several seconds[/QUOTE] reposting this needs to happen!!!

that actually sounds kind of cool. Sort of in the vein of gordon playing with the snarks in HL1, I think it would be a funny kind of reference. [editline]sds[/editline] i mean reference to the god awful abundance of 'realistic war simulator' games.

And for the crowbar you can have a forced QTE where the idle animation doesn't end unless you mash E fast and hard enough to break your fingers

how about a QTE where you press E to to pry the crowbar into crates and then mash the fire button to use the crowbar how it's actually supposed to be used? :v:

QTE for using wall chargers

Am I the only one who actually likes ironsights? I was a fan of Black Mesa's revolver, and honestly wouldn't have minded if they did the same for other weapons as well.

[QUOTE=Cyanlime;39312713]Am I the only one who actually likes ironsights? I was a fan of Black Mesa's revolver, and honestly wouldn't have minded if they did the same for other weapons as well.[/QUOTE] I think there are no ironsights mainly because of simplistic gameplay design, on purpose. If there ever was a zoom-and-shoot it would definitely not be through ironsights, something more like that technology demo back in 2003 for half life 2 where you held the suit zoom and could still fire. But none the less it is still pretty pointless because enemies aren't ever far enough away to really need to zoom in that much and kill them.

[QUOTE=ojcoolj;39308065] I'm not a big fan of the "hooves" design, is that going to change at all? It just seems to make more sense as claws to me, sorry. And of course, don't forget the mouth on the underbelly! [/QUOTE] Don't be sorry! All feedback is great and helps to improve the design. I was taking inspiration for the hooves from OBM's Houndeye, which I'm starting to agree that at this stage the claws are more suited to this design. Let me know if you guys think the same. Corgi has been giving me pointers on where to change the design and they've been very helpful. I'll hopefully get some new pics up either today or tomorrow :D

[QUOTE=endorphinsam;39312760]I think there are no ironsights mainly because of simplistic gameplay design, on purpose. If there ever was a zoom-and-shoot it would definitely not be through ironsights, something more like that technology demo back in 2003 for half life 2 where you held the suit zoom and could still fire. But none the less it is still pretty pointless because enemies aren't ever far enough away to really need to zoom in that much and kill them.[/QUOTE] Take out magnum. Hold Z key and aim at a head. Hold mouse 1. Take finger off Z key. Take finger off mouse. Instant kill headshot.

[QUOTE=Ereunity;39313994]Take out magnum. Hold Z key and aim at a head. Hold mouse 1. Take finger off Z key. Take finger off mouse. Instant kill headshot.[/QUOTE] Before valve killed the wait command you could make macros to do that for you Also instant longjump in HL1 :v: [editline]22nd January 2013[/editline] I loved the wait command, I made so many useful toggle binds with it

[QUOTE=Marbledemon;39303333]Alright, some small progress on the rooftops. [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36921974/Hammer/trainstation4/2013-01-21_00004.jpg[/t] [/QUOTE] That reminds me. Please model the shingles or use some kind of paralax/displacement magic. They look awful as a flat textures.

[QUOTE=The Jack;39314174]That reminds me. Please model the shingles or use some kind of paralax/displacement magic. They look awful as a flat textures.[/QUOTE] Was just about to post asking what textures you guys wanted done specially: I'll put this in my queue. And, I'll be sure to include a heightmap so that we can use parallax on it.

[B]Btw, I've been trying to get better stubble on Gman.[/B] [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/b5atIRj.png[/IMG_thumb] Any suggestions on how I can make this better?

Looks fine to me, maybe make it a little darker