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Gabe has a widescreen monitor. It would seem pretty stupid to have a widescreen option that doesn't increase the horizontal FOV. Otherwise you'd have to decrease the vertical FOV and you'd be waving your mouse up and down all the time to see the full height of anything. I don't think Gabe...

Uh, well it can't be CS2 apparently, otherwise ATI couldn't offer CS2 bundled with the x800 at the same price that the HL2 bundle is offered: http://theinquirer.net/?article=15820 And Gabe has explicitly said the TF2 will be sold seperately from HL2. It seems pretty likley that Valve would...

Why couldn't CS2 come out first? Pretty unlikely, I know, but they've kept it under wraps for so long, there's no reason it couldn't be finished before hl2 and released first.

Heh, it's funny to think about all you suckers waiting for the box while I'm busy playing HL2 off Steam. :p

^^ Totally agree, we have to consider the unique challenges that producing a community-developed mod present. I think a simple, multi-player mod would be perfect for this situation. Also, I wonder if it isn't possible to restrict or weight voting in favor of people who have the skills to...

I can't say the author/editors were unfair, but the whole article annoyed me because of the tone. It was written as though HL2 was supposed to conform to a higher standard than any other game, and the editors were disappointed when everything wasn't absolutely mind-blowing. Emphasizing that...

I like the concept, a lot of potential. Something to think about: ever seen Solaris? I think it would be fun, instead of fighting zombies, to be cooped up in this space ship, going nowhere, with a bunch of crewmates who may or may not be going completely insane. With the facial-animation...

sorry d8cam, we love you, come back. You have to tell us all about E3. :D

:laugh: Is this a joke? The board says "Start Discretionary Acting Anims" EDIT: Hey, but make sure to take pictures at E3 and write the whole event up for us. :) And smuggle a vidcam into the HL2 presentation. Is anyone else going to E3 from this community?

Not to drag up old threads, but FYI one of the Valve office photos the belgians took shows zBrush being used to make the hi-poly headcrab model.

hahahahha :rolling: Onions, earlier in this thread there's a picture of the other half of the whiteboard, and it says 'START DISCRETIONARY ACTING ANIMS'. I'm laughing because people keep posting different theories in this thread, and other people keep posting that it's already solved. It's...

I was going to add a couple ideas to this thread, but after reading through the monkeyball and blast chamber ideas I think the best kind of 'community mod' would be something simple yet addictive, the kind of game that doesn't require many instructions. An instant-action, abstract, 'silly' game...

Somebody find this man a host! :D

It's local to his machine/LAN, it's a file on E: or F:. I think all the tasks on the board are animations/scenes that still need to be completed. Back to Kliener's, Dr. Breen, Citadel, discretionary anims. There appears to be a lot of animation/scene content left to create.

It says "Start discretionary acting anims". Probably referring to animations that characters may or may not do in response to Gordon, ie, pushing him out of the way when trying to walk somewhere as discussed in the Softimage 'tutorial' video. re: possible spoiler info on the board, it's not...

Regardless of what the guy said, they're obviously dates, we can stop arguing about that. They increment by 7 each time (weeks), they allow 30 days for Apr and 31 days for May, and they're dates that immediately follow the date the photos were taken. Suggesting that they're 'scene numbers' and...

ORIGINAL whiteboard photo That image was edited by Valve and censored, here's the original photo that was taken.

I'll try explaining it again. Each number is 7 ahead of the last number. There are 31 days in May. 5/27 + 7 only equals 6/3 if 5/31 is the last number in the '5' sequence. The likelyhood that there are exactly the same number of 'units' in the fifth 'scene' as there are days in the fifth...

Sorry, I have to disagree. The numbers go 5/13 5/20 5/27 6/3 These correspond to weeks of the month. It would not skip from 5/27 to 6/3 unless we're talking about MAY and JUNE.

Interesting... wonder if they're building the hi-res models in ZBrush, then using softimage to degrade them for the lo-res model.