How big is half life

[L33T ha4or]

yeah i did know about the whole engine draws out anything blocked by an ingame object is left out then the rest is rendered and what you dont see is dumped. i also could have been alot more detailed but i read that about a year ago and i didnt want to state anything i wasnt 100% sure of.

 

[DiebytheSword]

Look at the particle engine they added to HL. Makes for some nice effects. The HL enigine itself will run fine for a long time to come, as was pointed out by previous posts. Untill the source code of other older games (ie QIII) are released the adaptable qualities of the HL engine will continue to be popular amongst modders.

I hear certain whispers in the dark hearts of some team members that QIII/JKII would be a nice move when the ESF final is done and overwith.

 

[L33T ha4or]

GOD no not Q3 or JK2 if ya gunna change engines make it a major change like to the Unreal2 engine with its advanced physics it would rock supreme to the maximum capacity you could have cloths draped off your chars and hair realisticly waving in the wind. drool

 

[BrunO]

Originally posted by Cucumba!
Look at the particle engine they added to HL. Makes for some nice effects. The HL enigine itself will run fine for a long time to come, as was pointed out by previous posts. Untill the source code of other older games (ie QIII) are released the adaptable qualities of the HL engine will continue to be popular amongst modders.

I hear certain whispers in the dark hearts of some team members that QIII/JKII would be a nice move when the ESF final is done and overwith.

I thought the team was gonna create a custom engine when there finished with ESF beta1.

BrunO

 

[DiebytheSword]

Some of them are moving on to a retail game. Some will stay with ESF.

 

[Enforcer15]

Wouldn't a decent engine to move to be Red Faction or Red Faction 2(forgot when its coming out)? Both of them have deformable terrain with GeoMod, and it would make ESF all the better with the ability to form craters wherever you shoot, and possibly have your character get smashed into rock and stuck until you press a button and level a small portion of the rock your stuck in, freeing you from the ground/wall.

 

[Hibiki]

no way there hard to mod for and have 0 modding comunity witht hem...


a good move would be to unreal2...



anyway if valve ever releases the soruse code then they can fully edit teh engine and basicly make a brand new game

 

[BrunO]

I dont believe Unreal2 would be a good move but move to the Unreal Tournament2 because it is more multiplayer orientated but know they are basically the same engine. I would realy like to see a Mod for Doom]|[ because have you guys seen that game!
But both games arnt out yet so we have no need to worry, and i dont think the team will be changing engines anytime soon.

BrunO