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Well durr

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNimxVDtV08

Also in my profile is a background...

Exactly and isn't democracy about free speech...Your entitled to your opinion...Remember your opinion matters most..Not others.

Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IIBCLBHrs

I found a few bugs in the intro...Dog sometimes gets stuck but the sequences continue like the throwing of a car...
Alyx gets stuck in tiny props...
Somtimes the NPC's zap around like major lag...it is in my link above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbbJvxFW7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8MfDvTIe8

These two are the intro of HL2 EP1 however Youtube still hasn't acknowledged them...

By the way they took out a load of Gman sounds after decrypting...

Well it's only me who can see it so don't worry about me...Super bright ftw!

Bahaha! Tidal wave...Poor woman though...She'll die at a young-ish age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F04_ypClwE&search=half%20life%202

Yeah...They re-used a lot of their HL2 maps but it makes sense...Plus it felt good to walk around these empty places once again...Jocabob my spoiler post will expand..Later.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n0l5N6Exjz0

Episode 2 Trailer on Youtube...It doesn't spoil anything about Ep1 except the new monster...And a certain body but watch if you will...

http://users.pandora.be/history/pics/hl2ep1/ep1_citadel_040018.jpg

Finally the ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3VmLvQN5k&search=half%20life%202

Note to those who have seen and played this...Have you noticed as you ride out the screen flashes the same as when you meet the advisor...There is more than one it seems as they fly out of the Citadel.

Funny shot...Slight spoiler...

Now I just finished it...About 4 hours but I'd call it less because my PC froze 3 times..I realise now HDR may work but after a while the PC just locks up >_>

Anyway my views and if you don't want to be spoiled then don't read...

SPOILERS

Now you start with the explosion...Alyx is frozen and vortigants with strange blue eyes appear all around her...They teleport her out and you who is in the black room is with the Gman who suddenly gets pissed off because these vortigunts come to save you..Thats why he says "Well see about THAT!"

Now Valve had some brilliant entity work in this short game! The intro was great and I felt although it was short it has answered so much and left me with even more questions...I can tell you all about it...

You talk to Eli and Kleiner to find that escaping is not possible...The Citadel is close to exploding so you have no choice but to go inside and sort it out..You start with the 'orange' gravity gun and it leads on to this long process of fighting your way up...

You have to turn on these 3 machines to make that huge orb calm down...

You end up riding a train full of Stalkers who start biting Alyx because the train crashes and one falls on her...You have to lift it up with gravity gun...

There are quite a lot of puzzles and the term Alyx uses a lot is "How can we get pass!"

There is a whole dark section that requires you to go around looking for power boxes...They made it scary with random noises and vents that fall down...

Breen is dead...At least we are lead to believe he is..You see an 'old' video where he goes on about stuff and then says "OH SHIT HERE HE COMES"...

You view a video of Mossman in some weird place and then a new blue creature knocks the camera over...Something tells me we are going to visit it in EP2 / 3...

The funny thing is this game is full of jokes..You pull out the TV and Alyx says "Yeah your right..We shouldn't watch too much TV"...
You go up a vent and it falls down back in the same room as her and she says "Oh...Back already?"

The AI is much better...Zombies stutter backwards when shot and Alyx can re-program those eletric balls when you hold them in front of her...You have to block up Antlion holes with cars...The only thing that annoyed me was that Alyx got stuck in a tiny piece of metal..

You meet the 'Advisor' which makes your screen srew up...You are forced to run because something weird is going on in your head.

You meet Barney who gives you what he calls "Don't lose this crowbar...I don't have many spares left"..

Lots of action and a section where you must transfer a load of rebels to one side of the map without them dying (Kinda like GTA protection missions)..

Just as you open the door for Alyx a Strider shoots you and your forced to fight it...At the end you get on a train and as you ride off you see the Citadel exploding...Everything goes crazy and flashy and then it whitens out...The credits come up.

I shant post screens because it only just came out...I am going to record myself playing it and upload them to Youtube...

So in my opinion although it is short I enjoyed it! I have been inspired because they did a great job...Now to play again

Also the Coming Soon video makes you want to go :O...Alyx falls and a Vort carries her as if she is dead...Those blue creatures run in a forest...Bizarre.

End Spoiler

It froze because I went a little crazy on the graphic settings however I have gotten very far...The intro is amazing and I promise not to spoil anything but Valve have certainly increased their skills with entity work...The action! THE SEQUENCES

Zombine! Heh she actually cracks that up

Anyway I'm off back to play ;D

I was going to post when I saw kasperg answer that his answer was precise and accurate - Well Done.

I have Fakefactory installed...Got it yesterday - It was called Fakefactory Cinematic Mod Final and it worked great...Alyx looks like a prostie.

Nah I can see it pretty well...Although I think it is just a 'tad' too dark..Just increase brightness by 0.001

I must share some views...I have used XSI for a while and I find it rather easy to use once you follow a few tutorials...Others may suggest 3DS Max which isn't free but I believe it is more professional plus if your used to designing on graphic design programs like Pro Desktop then 3DS is for you because 3DS was developed and evolved from the CAD / CAM designing programs...

Pretty good...It least you got it to work >_> Mine came out golden and ultra shiny.

What the hell is what? DOG, Alyx and a load of rubble...They are talking to a TV...What's so hard about that.

Yeah Saco normally I have to agree but you just said it sucked...Ok so the presentation wasn't professional but hey it made me think...Cool, good graphics...I'm also impressed because I just played an old HL mod...;)

Yeah pretty easy to spot when the scientist is in it...Bloom and shadows...Pretty nice but your video link is wrong.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2aftermath/screenindex.html

More screens...

I understand some people don't like buying things off the Internet...Even I didn't like buying things off of it however if you don't then you are going to miss out on things and one person can't stop the process of selling online...

Only 1 more day

Make a box...Bit by bit because my making a hollow box it renders the outside too and thus more lag and longer compiles...You shouldn't hollow a box anyway because your compiling empty space unless your map is completely square >_>

So are you going to spill the details on competition 21?

I use 100 Brightness and 100 Contrast...
Too dark otherwise...Screens look hot!

Heh I did that for my Source compo map and look where it left me

For those who couldn't be bothered to download the interview...
The head director of EP1 explained the new content such as new lighting and better AI for Alyx. There is going to be ultra graphics for those with top PC's and from what I saw I can give away a few things...

Spoilers

In the interview it shows G-Man walking back through the same white door at the end of HL2 except a blue light appears and he suddenly seems shocked / smiles. He walks / gets sucked back into the white light and so do you. This is how I believe it starts...

Now things we know about it:

Gman is pissed
The advisor is inside the Citadel
There are Combine zombies
Alyx says goodbye to DOG and gets inside the broken van...DOG picks it up and throws you into the hole...
Breen is still alive and your aim is to find him according to the interview...

The game works like so - You start with the good weapons and it goes backwards so you end with pretty much nothing...The gravity gun (Blue high powered version) lasts until you leave the Citadel...because in other gameplay clips you see the orange one again...

There is going to be a hospital section...
Supposedly someone dies...According to a guy who played it he said "All I can say is...poor Alyx" which could mean either her, DOG or her Dad dies or is captured etc...

It took Gabe 7 hours to complete on his play-through and the testers 6 hours on medium...

There will be a dark section where Alyx relies on you to guide her with your torch...If you shine it at her face she covers her eyes with her hands.

Zombie Combine run, slap and try to blow you up with grenades...

There is a giant orb that causes Alyx to question what the Combine are up to...Perhaps new teleportation or a weapon...

Thats all I can suss right now..Feel free to add to it.

End Spoiler

I for one commend them for making the 'Combine' style so easy to make
Screens look mighty impressive and will not dissapoint

Anyway I'll record gameplay just for you HL2 : EP1 haters

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Screens/ScreenShots.htm?CS_pid={F7B446FE-1FBF-4177-BA0A-2932588AA76D}

Major screens!

o_0

Looking good as always...How many times have I said this >_>

That Japanese English thing was hilerious!

I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!

Ah I loved it when he says it in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfmx4sZNhXU&dpos=0

Hehe

No when water is clear there is a leak...Everyone knows this...Water_lod is created anyway if you don't put it in and cubemaps are needed to make the textures display properly.

Heh...But Kasperg has a good point...I didn't see it that way till now and I guess you are right. If you feel something will make others happy then share it however why share happiness when you can enjoy it alone...People get jealous and want your happiness and fights occur...See my point?

Pwned - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3868751167005642764

SMOD has the 'Warthog' as a drivable vehicle...Try searching that.

Anyone seen Xmen 3 yet? The Juggarnaut is in it and guess what he says

Heh Chinese music makes me laugh:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=426566504844044258&q=night+of+fire

Sometimes my maps get this but only a few come up...Something VRAD is calculating however I know this sounds silly but I believe the more there are the better your map looks...Heh silly theory.

I noticed 'env_text' causes Hammer to crash everytime you load the VMF so to fix I edited the VMF in .txt format and simply deleted all mentions of the word 'env_text' and the entity properties.

I experimented with fog...You can actually enable it in-game and then change it till it looks perfect in your map. Then you simply copy the figures into Hammer and voila.

I've experimented with water textures...Haven't managed to get them working yet but here are the results:

I had 2 of the same texture...Both had different information in the VMT and as a result the texture came out differently...One looked how I wanted it to (It looked like the texture image reference I used) however it was still solid...
The second texture looked like your average 'HL2' water however something was different...It was very clear and it seemed to animate differently..It actually looked like water so I decided to keep it and use it in future maps.

I noticed de_dust doesn't have a complete 'Palm Tree' model and thanks to a guy called 'Skidz' people like me can finally put 'life-size' palm trees in our maps.

Finally my first attempt at bumpmapping failed...It came out 3D yes but for some reason the whole texture was extremly shiny and Golden...

That's all I can think of so far.

That is some good architecture...Does it lag at all?

Heh I must be really lucky because while everyone else has problems with Hammer I seem to never get any...Mind you I hardly map..Anyone want my super 'lucky' Hammer?

More models! Even if you make new skins...Multiple characters shows you put a lot of effort into the mod...Try and skin some of the famous characters like Data! and as Peter Griffin said: "Holy crap! Alora is black!"

Well I commend him for making all these maps alone but my rant is the quality of those pictures are quite a 'turn-off' however I like his story concept and the level design is quite detailed in places...He seems to reply on small detailed rooms though.

English people! Or I can't make fun of you

Keep it up Madcow.

Works fine and if it makes people feel any better I'll record my gameplay of EP1 later on...Not that I'm good or anything :

(Btw, using PS now)

/ Owned

Anyway Google has some great texture tutorials and 'Images' has easy textures to start with.

Elon is ummm busy So I guess your thread is going to die? Hehe

Satchmo: Nice cat on a leash

Saw the second map on Interlopers...Had no idea it was being entered in this competition.

Liking the church but the ceiling has weird colours that don't blend in...

So how many entrants are there at the moment?

I can see this mod slowly coming together and I must say it is looking awfully professional!

Cause link is old Saco...Had you clicked like 2 weeks ago then maybe you could have seen it.

sickbay, right?

No, toilets But thanks for asking

Looking good Kasperg...Orph I have no idea what has happened to you but you act so differently on Snarkpit...Now your just being a bit of an ass...Not that I can talk however I feel you have pushed the limit.

Sorry I'm going to have to pass for now...I just spent 3 hours today on an English exam...So in other words I wrote 3 essays in one day with no breaks...Now I'm sick of writing...