Editing Half-Life

{{Infobox Project
|name=Half-Life
|author=Valve Software
|license=Proprietary, commercial
|engine=[[GoldSrc]] (derived from [[WinQuake]], [[GLQuake]], and [[QuakeWorld]])
|first-release=1998
|newest-release=1999
|website=[http://valvesoftware.com Valve Software]
}}

A majorly popular game based on [[Quake]]'s game code...

It was mildly popular since its November 1998 release but it skyrocketed with the release of Counter-Strike in 1999. This highly boosted sales of the game and quickly taken the throne of the most popular multiplayer game in 2000.

== Engine Modifications ==
* Skeletal model system, with 4096 triangles maximum per mesh and 512x512@8bpp maximum texture resolution and depth (raised to 1024x1024@8bpp in Sven Co-Op), and optional pseudo-environment mapping for textures ("chrome" sphere mapping)
* A sound DSP with reverb, chorus and echo effects for software-mixed environmental audio without needing EAX.
* Colored, radiosity lighting for maps, compiled with a fork of QRAD.
* HLBSP supporting colored lighting, variating hull sizes and external textures (also supports internal textures like Quake<!-- seen in some vanilla maps -->)
* Water waves and translucency
* Material system for walls and floors to define impacts and footstep noises
* Particle system with trailing particles 
* Beam system for beam effects including support for depthWrite fades, with shapes like straight beam, lightning noise and cylindric shockwaves
* Sound sentence sequences, for stringing a bunch of WAV files in an order to construct a sentence (i.e. Speech of announcer, marines, etc)
* Simple lip sync
* PROGS are in DLL form divided into cl_dll (for client-side) and dll (for server-side), and as such, require Microsoft Visual C++ 6 to compile.

== External links ==
* [https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Half-Life Half-Life] on the Valve Developer Wiki

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