freaking amazing gaphics in new mod for HL2

KNiVES said:
Maybe I just like Crysis too much...
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You do, because the skin is far from right on that too.
As for your comment of the skin looking fine in HL2 (before mods), they were flat, no depth at all.

The problem with rendering skin is nothing to do with textures, it's down to simple biology and recreating that with shaders.
 
benjo said:
I agree the hi-res textures are impressive, but if this is possible on the engine, why don't valve implement something like it themselves? Surely they could do a better job than fake factory? They could just have it as a graphics option or something.

Lo naffa =]
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Because it would probably throttle lesser vid cards if the textures were that high res?
 
To be fair its likely been modelled by some hobbyist/ wannabe 3D artist so taking that into consideration its actually pretty good (and ears are incredibly hard to get right).


Though i agree you really wouldn't want to pay money for something like that :)
 
With every update of this pack it seems to get more ridiculous each time. If they didn't have a starting point of a set of characters we all know and love it would probably be ok - but these 'updates' always look wrong.

Three cheers for original Alyx!

This is how I want to remember her... :p

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I think developers will eventually crack good looking human skin when the horsepower is there.

The nvidia human head demo is pretty cracking looking.

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prefer the original as original alyx looks almost believable, not overly cute or perfect which is like a lot of people. realism to me would be more charachter like more left/ride side face differences, maybe a zit. that kind of thing.

that new one is way too cg perfect which looks to me un-realistic.
 
Hello there :D

I spent a few mins looking at her bottom a few posts up and there is just something wrong :p

Is that what a fit woman looks like these days or do i need to get into the sunlight a bit more :D
 
that girl from first post looks a bit like she has something stuck up her arse ? don't know but there always has been something about HL characters that felt wrong :)
 
KNiVES said:
Technically it's good but come on, the materials are all wrong. Skin looks like plastic, the physical proportions are all disfigured and out of shape, the characters are extremely ugly and unaesthetically pleasing, the actual designs are just poor. They may know how to slap a 2056x2056 texture and UV wraps onto models, but as far as graphical artistry goes, they're a bag of ****.
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LOL.. at least get your power of 2 textures right if your going to try and get techy on these noobie forum asses :).. 2048 not 2056 :)
 
Have to admit his work is good. Crysis does have excellent graphics but it's human heads are massively let down by the poor facial animation and the lip syncing is terrible compared to hl2. Well at least to my eyes.
 
All Alyx talk aside is this going to be compatible with 32bit XP? Wasn't the last version only stable on a 64bit OS?
 
I wonder if the new alex still gets full face naked in episode 2. A strange shock when that scene came up using 8.0 of the mod. Looked better then the fat naked man they threw in.

New model looks nice, but why does the artist always go overboard with the shine effects. Happens in a lot of games.
 
mks2005 said:
They're too busy taking their time in making excellent games, rather than wasting it on implementing super-high-end graphics. Maybe Crytek should take note :p
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Please explain, as I think Crysis and Crysis Warhead were excellent games.
 
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