Mod idea, sorry if its already been posted

[MrWhite]

My idea is

Half-Life 1.5: The Black Mesa Incident

Basically just a remake of Half-Life but ... uhh... better?

Like for example at the start of half-life 1 in the locker room area where the scientist is drinking his coffee and the other one having troubles with the pop machine, like... add new stuff and more stuff and...

i dont know, im rambling, but you get the idea... or do you? I dont know...

k ill shut up now...

really i will..

riight... now.

 

[dawdler]

Can surerly be made, but:

A) Its a HUGE project. HL had huge levels, a huge amount of them, and a crapload of scripts to support the story.

B) Sounds: The original sounds are crappy, need to be totally remade, especially voices. And if you fit new material, it's a big amount of sounds to change.

C) Textures: I wont even describe the work required for upgrading HL textures.

D) Models: Some will be missing from HL2 I suppose, you need new. Along with animations for them.

A mod of this caliber would mean a very large one. We are talking gigabyte size. I dont think its really doable in reality, although the theory is nice... BUT it depends on how much one can use from HL2. If HL2 has already done it (they took their crappy old textures and remade them plus adding their new stuff), you only need some weapons and levels. And if you twist it a bit for HL2 and use only what it has available in terms of weapons (you need the aliens that are missing, would be stupid otherwise), you save space. Maybe 80% of the HL aliens would be there too...
So it comes down to two things: How much similar is HL2 to HL in terms of artwork? And how large are the levels?
If one single level is like 10mb, you can already there calculate how large at a minimum it will be (I have no idea though, just an estimate, maybe its much smaller, me hoping ). I dont remember how many levels HL had though.

 

[MrWhite]

Well... it was just a thought... i'm never really sure of myself or why i even bother talking... and yeah.

I just had the idea cause a good portion of the enemies will be re-appearing in HL2, and textures yeah... i dont know... im still typing arent i? jeez. New sounds too... would have to be done, your right...

oh yeah... uhmm... but uh, the scripts... some of them would be able to be changed to run from the physics engine... right? i mean... if like... yeah, the events we're altered a bit?

maybe i dont know what i'm talking about

anyways, im figuring more stuff used from half-life 2... textures... but you'd have to look at the textures first.. and... in one of the emails gabe said that the levels are... portable, just things have to be re-skinned... and you could edit them to add stuff... and other... stuff...

just get a modeler to create the few weapons, and few aliens. ta-da. oh my god i just said ta-da... eep.

rightio

 

[MrWhite]

oh yeah.. n... no that was it, sorry

 

[Murray_H]

Apology accepted

Yeah its been thought of, but still go ahead with it by all means! (If it's legal)