Movies: Making of Half-Life 2 in SIGGRAPH 2003

Originally posted by dscowboy
Here's what I don't understand... why did Valve feel they needed to explain Normal Mapping to the audience at SIGGRAPH? Those are like, the last people you should have to explain basic graphics concepts to. I guess if it was a press demonstration though...
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yeah i thought that was funny too.
 
My post of request for English article had a response from the moderator of 4Gamer's forum.
He said that releasing of the English article is in "discussed" status.
So still maybe, but the chance seems a bit greater.
 
Those are like, the last people you should have to explain basic graphics concepts to. I guess if it was a press demonstration though...
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1. This an old graphics technique, but a new realtime game engine technique
2. Don't make assumptions about the sort of people that attend SIGGRAPH. If Valve were there, that would suggest that the audience isn't all professors.
3. Having this in reatime in a 3d package is quite new
 
4. And most importantly, with budgets for game development exploding, showing off even existing techniques for making better games is something attendees are interested in.
 
Someone explain how that one poly thing works. Will you be able to see the wall in profile from the side and will lights around it react realistically to the surface coming from the sides?
 
nope... from the profile it would be effectively flat. the idea is to use it in an area that's far away so the user can't get right up to it, and possibly switch to a polygon version of it ala LOD when the user gets close.
 
Heh. The Japanese site responded to our request for an English translation!! Except I have no idea what they said! Here is the Babelfish translation:

"The curator it is

# Inscription of the " official sight ", it is shy.......

Entry of the HL2.NET (with that thread) you looked. Introduction, thank you.
What you pile up, on with the ‚Á ‚¿ ‚á ‚Á ‚Ä ‚é way the sushi
" It is the heavy sight ", complaint being written, the ‚é it does, (?)
" The Maybe " you writing, it is the ‚é it does, by all means would like to parallel to expectation.
With say at present as for the official answer with the feeling that " it is in the midst of internal adjusting ".

The staff resource to there it is not many being
Very, the hand does not turn, cannot put out the ƒXƒpƒb and the reply and there is no excuse."


http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...um&mode=view&page=0&num=7364&sort=1&back=tree
 
The a's with ticks over them are japanese characters if you turn on shift-jis encoding.
 
oh thank you for that Bit Torrent, instead of 7kbs from 4Gamer, im now at ~140Kbs, awesome
 
Will you be able to see the wall in profile from the side and will lights around it react realistically to the surface coming from the sides?
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I don't know how many lights they have on the normal map, but it will appear like a flat polygon if you view it from the side.

What valve might do is subdivide these walls when you get close to them, which would be very cool, but I'm not sure if they have implemented it.
 
Its still a very nice feature. Lets see Doom 3 with its 100 useless boxes fall down in all their glory at 2 fps...
 
Originally posted by Dagobert
I don't know how many lights they have on the normal map, but it will appear like a flat polygon if you view it from the side.

What valve might do is subdivide these walls when you get close to them, which would be very cool, but I'm not sure if they have implemented it.
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at the E3 presentation gabe said that wall in the cave was a bumpmapped subdivision surface...
 
English version interview

Hello,
my name is Kazuhisa, producer at japanese pc game web site, "forGamer.net". (http://www.4gamer.net/)

Since we put Half-Life2 Interview at SIGGRAPH2003, a lot of person who are interested in HL2 technology have been telling us that "When you make English version of this interview?".

....sorry for delay becuz of lack of our power, but yes okie, we did it.
Just now we have put English version of interview,
please check it from our top page ! (http://www.4gamer.net/)

#1
Sorry for poor english :(

#2
direct url is following :
http://www.4gamer.net/specials/hl2int/hl2int_e1.html

#3
interview movie's links are following :
(1) http://www.4gamer.net/store/movie/alyx.mpg
(2) http://www.4gamer.net/store/movie/wall.mpg
 
Wow thanks!

Its ok for your bad english, but thanks alot for making the the interview in english!
 
Originally posted by Dagobert
I saw this demo in person at ECTS
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the development movies? showing them using XSI and crap? why would they show that at ECTS? it fits at siggraph since it's that kind of a convention, but ECTS is for show casing games AFAIK...
 
The demo is trying to sell XSI to game developers. Lots of game developers at ECTS. The demo was not conducted by Valve, but by a guy from Softimage
 
According to other posts on the forum, all that people could find in the steam cache file were MP3 filenames which were part of the Steam downloads. Nothing about kazaa, or websites they had visited. Methinks some people on planetmayhem are running a disinformation campaign.
 
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