You can do detail textures now. I've done all kinds of things with OpenGL in HL, by doing it in the CLIENT dll, and so has others.
>From moving clouds, to 24bit TGA texture loading, model rendering, I did the rendering types on models that the newer hl engine has native support for 2 years ago (albeit a little bit better since I supported alpha channel), continuation of what I said about 24bit tga textures; I can load 32bit tga's too, and use alpha channels. Etc etc. FLF2's flashbang effect was done with OpenGL (I MAY put it into FLFD, I haven't decided ;) ) There's all kinds of things you can do _without_ valve needing to do it for you. All I'd like done is a few minor bug fixes, like the client side sound playing, and I forget what else I've mentioned before on here, I'd have to find it ;) Here are some examples of things you can do: http://omega.frontline2.com/imgdump/clouds3.avi http://omega.frontline2.com/imgdump/override3.jpg (these next 3 aren't the greatest quality..cause the texture sucked) http://omega.frontline2.com/imgdump/fl2_window_alphamask_test01.jpg http://omega.frontline2.com/imgdump/fl2_window_alphamask_test02.jpg http://omega.frontline2.com/imgdump/fl2_window_alphamask_test03.jpg alpha blending again: (32bit tga, alpha channel) http://omega.frontline2.com/alphatest/alphatest0002.jpg http://omega.frontline2.com/alphatest/alphatest0003.jpg http://omega.frontline2.com/alphatest/alphatest0004.jpg http://omega.frontline2.com/alphatest/alphatest0005.jpg of course we cannot forget the imfamous flashbang I mentioned: (note: this video is 100% ingame footage, no editing whatsoever except the text, the fading is NOT transitions) http://www.frontlineforce.com/omega/fl2_flashbang-fxdemo-alternate.avi some stuff x-0ut did: http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/Mom_Im_on_TV!.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/multiple_portals1.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/multiple_portals2.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/multiple_portals3.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/multivolume.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/detail_test1.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/detail_test2.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/normalmaps_test1.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/normalmaps_test2.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/normalmaps_test2b.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/simple_shadows.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/reflective_glass1.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/infinity.jpg http://xout.blackened-interactive.com/dump/camtest2.jpg As you can see the possibilities are almost endless =) -omega http://www.frontline2.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cale 'Mazor' Dunlap Sent: September 20, 2003 6:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Re: Re: hl1 engine suggestions I didn't know you could do the 'detail texture' thing. That's cool. But with scrolling textures and stuff, that's pretty much already taken care of, albeit a little tougher. Its done using individual images, so it all depends on the framerate set by the graphics artist. I would like to use things like rscripts, they seem to be a little nicer both on memory and performance compared to literally 'flipping' the image like a flipbook. I'm sure valve is pretty much scrapping the HL1 engine now that HL2 is comin out, maybe they'll make some modernizations to it, but that's most likely going to be about it. HL2 supports shaders and all that neat stuff, so if you DO want to use shaders and things, HL2 is gonna be nice for that. Hell, HL2 is gonna kickass to begin with ;) -Cale -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tei Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] Re: Re: hl1 engine suggestions Hello Cale, Saturday, September 20, 2003, 1:17:07 AM, you wrote: CMD> Not Quake 1 graphics engines, which HL1 was based on. No shaders... yes CMD> Quake 2, but they only used parts of the netcode of the Q2 engine. Thats doest not matter. 99% Quake2 or Quake1 engines implement, can be theoricall exist for Half-Life. Example: rscripts. A rscript is a file that set/reset flags for textures, example: waterfall { scroll 0 -4 } With that this texture will scrolldown at a speed of 4. Is this imposible or posible with half-life? Its this usefull? Other example: sand { detailtexture grain.pcx } wood { detailtexture fiber.pcx } This also work for models: model/2hand.mdl { shadow 0 } model/lavaball.mdl { fullbright 1 } rscripts where supported for both, quake1 and quake2 based engines. My later email whas not about the "genesis" problem, but about my suggestions, but because my english suck... _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
