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Difference between revisions of "Half-Life"
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== Engine Modifications == | == 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) | |
| − | * Skeletal model system, with 4096 triangles maximum per | ||
* A sound DSP with reverb, chorus and echo effects for software-mixed environmental audio without needing EAX. | * 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. | * 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 | + | * HLBSP supporting colored lighting, variating hull sizes and external textures (also supports internal textures like Quake<!-- seen in some vanilla maps -->) |
| − | * Water waves and | + | * Water waves and translucency |
* Material system for walls and floors to define impacts and footstep noises | * Material system for walls and floors to define impacts and footstep noises | ||
* Particle system with trailing particles | * Particle system with trailing particles | ||
Revision as of 01:48, 20 June 2023
| Author: | Valve Software |
| License: | Proprietary, commercial |
| Engine: | WinQuake, GLQuake |
| First release: | 1998 |
| Newest release: | 1999 |
| Website: | 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.
In 2013 an early prototype of the game was released. The Cutting Room Floor wiki has details: https://tcrf.net/Proto:Half-Life_%28Windows%29/September_1997_Prototype
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)
- 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.