Movies: Making of Half-Life 2 in SIGGRAPH 2003

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In "SIGGRAPH 2003", Valve had held a presentation called "Making of Half-Life2" at the Softimage booth.
Japanese game site "4Gamer" had released the movies and articles on this presentation.
The articles are written in Japanese language, but the movies of the presentation are in English language.

Making the normal maps from the hi-poly model on Softimage XSI:
movie: http://www.4gamer.net/store/movie/wall.mpg
article (in Japanese language): http://www.4gamer.net/news/history/2003.08/20030826215652detail.html

Animate Alyx on Softimage XSI:
movie: http://www.4gamer.net/store/movie/alyx.mpg
article (in Japanese language): http://www.4gamer.net/news/history/2003.08/20030826215325detail.html

Interview with Bill Van Buren (Valve's designer):
article (in Japanese language): http://www.4gamer.net/specials/hl2int/hl2int_1.html
 
lol as if i'm gonna download those movies!!, the server is so slow!
 
Thanks for the news. I'm downloading the movies at 4 kb/s. I'll probably get them after Half Life 2 actually comes out.
 
guess i'm stealing their bandwidth >:)
i'm downloading @ 50 kb/s
 
It's slow as hell! I want to see that movies, someone please find another site to download from (closer to europe, hehe=)
 
omg , a new post, that isnt based on peoples opinions and heresay, i am pleasently shocked.
 
the Alyx movie shows her walking limb (!) and making strange faces. it's cool. the wall movie is, well, just interesting...
the valve people's comments sound very cool as well. they're really enthusiastic about this.
 
the valve people's comments sound very cool as well. they're really enthusiastic about this.
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Well they are trying to sell the engine.
 
Valer, I hope you don't mind me grabbing your links and headings for my site. if you want me to reword it, please let me know.
 
Hmm.. quite interesting stuff.. the XSI normal map thing sounds quite easy.
 
wish i could watch them but my comp is so screwed i cant. all i can see is the lower left quarter magnified to take up the whole screen
 
cool rock wall owned. I like when they used flash light :)
 
Kewl. New content! Bowl me over with a feather.

Mind you, I'm still waiting for the dl... might take a nap while I wait. I thought this was why I upgraded to a 512 ADSL line.

Ah well, hope it's as cool as it sounds. But even if it were Alyx picking her nose for five minutes, I'd still probably be excited. Seems like forever since we've had anything really new.
 
I cant believe that wall that had fully workin light effects that shade the texture was only 1 POLY!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Its a pity hl2 will have such limited use of normal maps =\ would look much better if every surface had a normal map applied like doom3 does.
 
next to dooms avg of 34043843098423094823489023904823490823490822398471293847123984779879847239847298347
 
alb give me link to the japanese tranlsated i can't find.
 
they should atleast have normal maps on all character modles so they dont have to paint on details like wrinkles in cloths and shit liek that. It would look much better if the character textures didnt look so 2d.
 
i had no idea babel fish could do japanese lol
 
"Promptly, it is question, but, being to take charge what kind of process of the Half-Life2, it does?"

yea, bablefish owns =\
 
they should atleast have normal maps on all character modles so they dont have to paint on details like wrinkles in cloths and shit liek that. It would look much better if the character textures didnt look so 2d.
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HL2 is designed to support old hardware. That is why they aren't using it for everything.
 
They are both about 55mb.

Does anyone else think WickedEwok is related to BrassMonkey?
 
I have 512K and my speed is only 2.3k......... I am in the UK and I can download any file from Australia at 57.5K.......
 
The interview itself must be conducted in English, so 4Gamer should have original English text also.

For the 4Gamer forum, I have posted a request to release the interview article in English language.

Maybe you can read the interview in English later. Only maybe...
 
That G-Man shot is the same one from PCMaximum or whatever that PcMag is called.

I need that translation bad!!! Where did you find their forums?
 
LOL: Valer, did you post in Japanese? When I tried to find you post, Babelfish translated it like this:

"Half-Life 2 related sight halflife2.net (with article of 4gamer of the time before
The " official sight " it was written, but this is the fan sight.
Simply because the HL2-RELATED forum is active, a certain kind de facto mark positioning
It is but) being similar, the article of 8/26 of the 4gamer
" Half-Life 2 developer interview " and " development tool direct taking movie "
It introduced:
Http: //www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php? S= & threadid=5281

For the HL2 fan of the world where you are hungry to new information and technical information,
Very you think they are valuable contents.
Cannot ask the release of English edition before the translating with either just interview, probably is? "
 
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...
 
lol im actually dling this from japan. arent i?

ill have em in 2 hours....

jeebus
 
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