OK, things are looking really good as far as surfaces and lighting. It looks a LOT more realistic without the bump mapping.
My only quirk is with the super bloom. Tone it down a bit and the image will be great! :)
Once you fix that try rendering in widescreen, it'll bring your render to...
The image looks a lot better than the first one you posted. The lighting has improved vastly.
Yeah as others have said before me, just totally bring down the bump to the point where the wall looks like it has chipped paint, rather than dents from weathering.
Here's two prisons, one bumpy...
Good start.
Here's my crit: Turn down the wall bump mapping and especially the specularity. It looks like plastic, or like it's been sprayed with cooking oil. Your lighting could use a bit of work, and the shadows are too black. Try using some fill lights to get rid of the pitch...
Don't be so sure. Money does things to people.
And as for Psi Ops being rated T...
Uh...maybe in an alternate universe. I don't know what you've been playing. Psi Ops = M.
Regardless, I don't buy it one second that HL2 will get a teen rating, with an interrogation scene, watching...
OK guys, name me one game with rag-doll physics (that actually works) that received a T rating?
Also, no, companies DO NOT send games to the ESRB. Well not technically anyway. What they do send, is footage of the most "intense" points of gameplay etc.
Then, there's a group of people...
Yes, rating pending.
I have no idea how Mr. Newell is getting his information from the ESRB. Or maybe he is not and is just trying to be tricky with the wording, really trying to say what they were shooting for, or maybe that whole e-mail above is a scam.
The ESRB does not discuss with...
That's my statement buddy. If you're fine with your 700 mhz then hey, swell for you, I don't care. But if you want to game and your stone aged computer can't handle it, don't go whining to companies for being inconsiderate. :rolling:
I like this Mmmm
Or the first part of this mmmmx2
BTW Bill Brown is the best game music composer ever. :E Valve should hire him instead.
http://billbrownmusic.com/musicmain.htm
Go there for more music by him.
Really a person who still has a 700 mhz PC who wants to play HL2 has no sympathy from me.
If you can't afford a 1.2 Ghz CPU, then you shouldn't be gaming at all in the first place. You should be working your ass off in school getting your education so you can get a job and money. Or...
As for what will be low end in 2006, you can pretty much believe that at the very least, the 3.2 Ghz will be low end. We've been kinda slowly pushing processor power the past year and half...but by 2005 things will pick up with Intel rolling out the 7 Ghz CPU's, and by late 2006, we'll be...
I kinda figured it was you from the similarities between the avatars. :naughty:
And no, I'm working for a52 right now. (Visual effects house. Mainly does car commercials)