making HL2 and Ep1 look better!

You guys a being alittle ruff on fakefactory, It is'nt worse that the Doom 3 textures...The Doom 3 textures almost look as cartoonish as the TF2 look :LOL:.






Karabiner said:
I don't understand all the "BLARYHAEHDTGHADTGH FAKEFACTORY!!!!!!" hate on this site, I mean, Jesus, it's just a mod, it's not worth calling the maker a "Hack" and everyone who likes his mod an "utterly clueless breed of people not worth defending." All you have to do is not download the damn thing, not insult everyone associated with it.

God, some of you people are worse than those CS:S Whiners who foam at the mouth at any little change Valve makes to the game......

(Also, not everyone on the Filefront Community is not "People Easily Pleased" Take me for example, I go there under a different name, and I know stupid jobs when I see them, like that craptastic Substance mod which half-assedly combines Metal Gear Solid with Half Life and throws a bunch of random new enemies all over the places in a messy manner.

And no, a Painted-Black CP would not make me impressed either...)
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Agreed.
 
I disagree, personally i found nothing wrong with Doom 3's Textures and enjoyed the game on a whole ;P
 
Drackard said:
I disagree, personally i found nothing wrong with Doom 3's Textures and enjoyed the game on a whole ;P
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In my opinion, I thought Doom 3's gameplay was severly lacking. Doom 3 was such a lackluster. The gameplay was fairly unbalanced, Some weapons are too powerful & then the bossfights??? Gaming has evolved. Yes Doom 3's graphics are nice but people at UAC & the monsters look like they're made of plastic...especially the Hellnight. Doom 3 is nothing innovative. ID choose to revive an old game with better Graphics, sound, & story this time, but the gameplay was such a lackluster.



The bossfights is a thing of the past, Doom 3 is'nt taking the FPS into the future. I don't know why they made a movie for Doom 3 it does'nt deserve it. Doom 3 was boring as hell...get it? lol. Well the doom movie just made the Doom name worse.


I apologize if I got alittle of course here.
 
I don't like how they redid the faces of known characters (barney, alyx etc). Doesn't look like the Barney I know (or Alyx etc) . I think the civilian characters are OK, mainly because I don't have an impression in my head of how they should look. I don't like to modify the characters and stuff in my games so I won't be dling it. Gun skins and models are different though (cs).
 
KaMaKaZi-BLiTz said:
In my opinion, I thought Doom 3's gameplay was severly lacking. Doom 3 was such a lackluster. The gameplay was fairly unbalanced, Some weapons are too powerful & then the bossfights??? Gaming has evolved. Yes Doom 3's graphics are nice but people at UAC & the monsters look like they're made of plastic...especially the Hellnight. Doom 3 is nothing innovative. ID choose to revive an old game with better Graphics, sound, & story this time, but the gameplay was such a lackluster.



The bossfights is a thing of the past, Doom 3 is'nt taking the FPS into the future. I don't know why they made a movie for Doom 3 it does'nt deserve it. Doom 3 was boring as hell...get it? lol. Well the doom movie just made the Doom name worse.


I apologize if I got alittle of course here.
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Meh, your entitled to your opinion, but i for one never had a problem with it.
 
Mossman looks terrible, and wtf is with the rest of those shots?:lol:
 
It takes away the "feel" of Half-Life 2 that Valve set out to create. Makes it less of a polished piece of awesomeness and converts it into a sleazy back-alley 'entertainment product'.
 
Omega1 said:
Reading further into these comments, it appears that FakeFactory is heading in a whole new direction of unequaled stupidity with the next version of his pack, whenever that comes out (For the sake of all humanity, hopefully never).
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You can't be surprised. There werehints in the original mod that it would go in this direction.
 
okidoki said:
You can't be surprised. There werehints in the original mod that it would go in this direction.
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If there's one thing I can agree with, it's that.

Now, if during the game we saw Barney's little abode during the game and saw those Alyx posters, I'd be "Ok, a little cliche, but makes sense." Because I have quite a distinct feeling Barney is quite a ladies' man. :naughty:

But in her dad's own lab, well. >.>, that's a different story.....

Also, all those zany Alyx pictures in those many costumes is part of his Alyx Construction Kit, which comes with all sorts of them, one is supposedly supposed to put her in her own HEV suit, but I don't know. I know for sure however is that you can give Alyx her original clothing, instead of all the other random stuff.
 
Zomg, amazingly super-sexualised Alyx.

See, you get a female lead, and see how the fan community treats her... *sigh*
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Character faces and skin are pure failure, pure and simple, while the scenery textures are okay. The posters are more readable. Note more, not finally.
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That's basically what I think, the textures are good for everything but the people.

btw, now we all need to wait for are remodels of Alyx with Double-G sized bras D:
 
I used FF's skinpack because I dont care much for the low res and blurry textures that HL2 uses. I dont like a lot of things in the FF pack, but any improvement is welcome tbh.
 
Alyx in HL2 the valve version looks like crap but the fak'es version is so so, but the redo Alyx skin that Valve made in Half-Life 2: Episode One is much improved over its orginal version. If I could ever put the EP1 skin in vanilla Half-Life 2...that would be great.



But even though the character skins suck, I love the world skins(the environment skins) like the sink... etc.
 
KaMaKaZi-BLiTz said:
Alyx in HL2 the valve version looks like crap but the fak'es version is so so, but the redo Alyx skin that Valve made in Half-Life 2: Episode One is much improved over its orginal version. If I could ever put the EP1 skin in vanilla Half-Life 2...that would be great.
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Except for her gloves and a small cut added to her eyebrow (And if you wanted to nitpick, a few other massively minor things), the Episode One Alyx skin is exactly the same as the original HL2 one. Yes, phong shading and rim lighting or whatever was added, but these are simply effects. I wouldn't classify them as a "redo Alyx skin" from Valve since they didn't really do a whole lot to the actual skin.
 
so basically its the lighting that makes the skins better.. hmm HDR, Phong shading and Rim shading in HL2... that'll be pure bliss. ^^
 
Omega1 said:
Except for her gloves and a small cut added to her eyebrow (And if you wanted to nitpick, a few other massively minor things), the Episode One Alyx skin is exactly the same as the original HL2 one. Yes, phong shading and rim lighting or whatever was added, but these are simply effects. I wouldn't classify them as a "redo Alyx skin" from Valve since they didn't really do a whole lot to the actual skin.
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Im going to post EP1 Alyx & HL2 Alyx side by side comparison
 
Personally I wouldn't touch FakeFactory. Totally ruins the aesthetics of the game, but it's fair enough that people like it and not worth getting all worked up about it. It's not like Valve are forcing it down our throats via steam or something.
 
Half-Life 2 Alyx vs. Episode One Alyx


Half-Life 2 Alyx:


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Half-Life 2: Episode One Alyx:





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As you can tell, the Vanilla HL2 Alyx has less detail on her eyebrows, her nose has lots of jagged edges, & lips have less detail plus is very pixelated even on the best computers......While The Episode One Alyx has much more detail on the eyebrows, on the lips, & her nose has smother edges(very nound) & of course her bewbs are a tiny bit bigger... that is all.
 
KaMaKaZi-BLiTz said:
As you can tell, the Vanilla HL2 Alyx has less detail on her eyebrows, her nose has lots of jagged edges, & lips have less detail plus is very pixelated even on the best computers......While The Episode One Alyx has much more detail on the eyebrows, on the lips, & her nose has smother edges(very nound) & of course her bewbs are a tiny bit bigger... that is all.
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I suggest you actually take a look at the vtf files if you want to compare them. The skins on both models are the exact same resolution, and nearly exactly the same in looks as well. As I said, all Valve did was change Alyx's gloves and add a cut to her eyebrow. Again, I reiterate, Valve made absolutely no significant changes to Alyx's skin, certainly not adding any more detail.

Look at the following picture, which compares the Half-Life 2 Alyx and Episode One Alyx under equal conditions (HL2 on left, Ep1 on right):
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You'll notice that, aside from the aforementioned gloves and cut, both skins look virtually identical. That's because both skins are virtually identical. Valve added some polys to the model (8300 from HL2 to 8700 in Ep1), but they did nearly nothing to the skin. There are some alterations on the nose, but her eyebrows, lips, and so on are exactly the same. Her bewbs seem to have shrunk, incidentally.
 
In the EP1 skin it looks she alittle bit more hair in the back, the red streaks are longer, but very minor detail on the lips you need a very good eye, the hair looks 2 dimentional in vanilla hl2.
 
Shift said:
Sorry we aren't comparing her nude skins
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+1 for stupid references that have nothing to do with anything in the topic. You win.

Also, bonus points for carrying your baggage around like a sisssy girl.
 
you really dont have any clue on how to insult anyone do you, you're so comical its untrue, please continue so I can laugh at your pathetic attempts on insulting me
 
You're boring me. You make some pathetic reference to previous postings of mine for some reason (stupidity seems likely) and they you act like some kind of knee-slapping tard that's just "owning" poor, meek Absinthe.

Just admit you're a shit already and come out. It's tiring. At the very least, don't paint me as trying to instigate some sad insult contest when you're the one who provoked my response.
 
Absinthe said:
You're boring me. You make some pathetic reference to previous postings of mine for some reason (stupidity seems likely) and they you act like some kind of knee-slapping tard that's just "owning" poor, meek Absinthe.

Just admit you're a shit already and come out. It's tiring. At the very least, don't paint me as trying to instigate some sad insult contest when you're the one who provoked my response.
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Absinthe Wins ^.^
 
Ok guys, back to ogling fictional characters please, no more flaming in this thread.
 
Que-Ever said:
You would agree.

ok, ok, no more after this.
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Im just a very agreeable kind-of-guy ;).


So about that Alyx character, Oh wait wrong thread. Anyway's as Shift said, I think Alyx face textures look abit sharper that's what I think & im sticking to it!
 
Damnit. It's getting so hard to wait another week to get Episode 1...
 
Absinthe said:
You're boring me. You make some pathetic reference to previous postings of mine for some reason (stupidity seems likely) and they you act like some kind of knee-slapping tard that's just "owning" poor, meek Absinthe.

Just admit you're a shit already and come out. It's tiring. At the very least, don't paint me as trying to instigate some sad insult contest when you're the one who provoked my response.
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First of all, you provoked my response for coming into a topic just to take the piss out of blitz, you posted nothing of relevance to the topic at hand. But please, 'flame' me some more because I love seeing what crap you come out with everytime. You are now officially my favourite person on the forum. :LOL:
 
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