i wonder how glass will look

[scurvy]

i mean like shattering glass, and whatnot..

so far sof2 has the best glass i've seen. you can even blow the glass up and the pieces stick in the bad guys. cool shit.

also do you think we'll be able to use any dual guys, or 'akimbo'?

:dork:

 

[DOOManiac]

I hope not. The day Gordon pulls out two pistols it the day I.. um.. do something drastic...

And yeah SOF2 had some good glass, as did Metal Gear Solid 2. But so far the best game glass I've seen has been from DOOM III. I got to play a little bit of at Quakecon, and I sat there for about 30 seconds just playing with the glass. Very cool stuff.

I'm sure that with all the things HL2 can do with wood and metal, glass will look very very sexy when blowing to tiny bits...

 

[Mr. Redundant]

if you look at one of the e3_videos (traptown) an enemy combine shoots out a window at you, and its pretty much the same as HL1, then again there were a lot of placeholders in teh e3 demos, so you cant be too sure

what did the glass break like in doom3 ?

 

[DOOManiac]

well, perhaps the easiest way to put it would be to say it breaks like glass in an action movie... looks EXACTLY like in an action movie, its bullets going through it, or a person

 

[scurvy]

umm..? no

 

[MultiVaC]

Originally posted by scurvy
umm..? no

About what?

 

[jemook]

anyone shot glass in the chaser mp demo?

that rocks i was doing it for about half an hour =)

 

[Wesisapie]

i thought Crisis Zone had good breaking glass, especially for its time.

 

[Kyle2]

err.... maybe someone should go out and shoot some glass in real life and compare that too the games... just a thought:dozey:

 

[DOOManiac]

Originally posted by Wesisapie
i thought Crisis Zone had good breaking glass, especially for its time.

Indeed. In fact, I kept losing a few times cause I was shooting the glass instead of the people I should have been shooting. All the stuff that breaks in the game makes spray-and-pray so visually rewarding.

 

[scurvy]

yea crisis zone had lots of cool stuff besides glass too

 

[AcousticToad]

Alyx's legs can go akimbo...Seriously tho, i dont think akimbo weapons would suit the game.

I think the glass will look good, hell, why make a game with cool graphics and crap then put crappy glass effects in?

 

[scurvy]

yea i guess you can always add akimbo for mods

 

[Tek]

in my experience the glass award goes to sof2, before that it would be red faction.

 

[DOOManiac]

Yeah Red Faction had some pretty good glass too.

I'm still disappointed that that engine wasn't used to its full potential as a dig dug mod.

 

[Tek]

is there anything better in life than digging a deep ass hole with rockets?


I THINK NOT.

 

[FriScho]

Let's check real glass

If you shoot it with a high speed projectil (gun, pistol) it will cause concentric cracks. Like this:
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/images/glass2.jpg

If you hit it with a slow-speed projectil (rock, dart) ist will cause radial cracks
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/images/glass1.jpg

Many games show radial cracks if you shoot glass and that's wrong.

If you shoot glass several times, it will look like that:
http://www.annadwa.org/schoolattack/door_glass_bullet_hole.jpg

Big concentric cracks until the whole structure breaks together.

 

[Feath]

In the Valve Info thread Gabe has already said that there will be no akimbo weapons.

 

[Plasmatics]

I'm guessing that, like everything else in Source, it'll look great.

 

[alphablu]

Speaking of red faction and digging big ass holes, was there a map made specifically to have fun destroying stuff? besides the glass house level.

That would be cool if there were some towers or a big building to tear down.

 

[Anthraxxx]

Originally posted by Feath
In the Valve Info thread Gabe has already said that there will be no akimbo weapons.

Damn, I was hoping for akimbo crowbars too.....maybe in MP?


lol j/k, it would be cool though.

 

[SLH]

Originally posted by alphablu
Speaking of red faction and digging big ass holes, was there a map made specifically to have fun destroying stuff? besides the glass house level.

That would be cool if there were some towers or a big building to tear down.

Sure you can download them. Can't remember where though....

Although you're likely to be disappointed, because when all you want to do is dig, you come across loads of limitations, such as you can only make so many holes (around 200).