Rick Ellis interview by Beyondhalflife.com

[synth]

BeyondHalfLife.com recently interviewed Rick Ellis of Valve Software. The interview is a quick four questions about the SDK and Hammer (and what they will include). Here's one:

BHL: Last question. What can we expect in the SDK? Hammer should be there, as well as the Faceposer tool and a version of XSI, but what about the resources? Will we get any models to pose, or any of those object "warehouses"? Any sample maps, sample models, or anything else?

Rick Ellis: There will be some samples and resources. For example, there will be a character with a set of animations to get you guys started on your own NPC's as well as models for various other objects in the world.

Find the rest of the interview here.

 

[Sashswash]

woah....thats in the "info from valve only thread"...


http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?p=328442#post328442

did that site take this e-mail and call it their own??

 

[Sashswash]

woah....thats in the "info from valve only thread"...


http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?p=328442#post328442

did that site take this e-mail and call it their own??

Its the e-mail from Spiffae

 

[synth]

exactly, and Spiffae owns beyondhalflife.com so he posted it there...

 

[Sashswash]

hahaha...nm

 

[Spiffae]

hahaha...nm

hah. didn't expect to see that posted back here... this is like the twighlight zone!

maybe i should post it as news over at Beyond Half-Life.

 

[synth]

Stuff posted on half-life websites (especially "interviews" with a bunch of good questions) usually gets more attention from everyone than stuff posted on the forums.

(This doesn't mean you should all go start bothering Gabe with lists of questions! ;( )

 

[He@t!]

Well atleast it wont come out in 3 years LMAO

 

[He@t!]

: In the initial release you won't have an engine to view your levels with, however since Hammer is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get -spiffae), you can visualize your levels that way. At some point in the future, we'll release a build of the engine that you can use to check out the physics and interactions of your level.


Awww that suckage.Thought we can atleast see what were building

 

[HybridM]

err...you can, wysiwyg = it will look the same in the editor as it does in the game. But you won't be able to see physics and other things.

 

[Illusion]

At some point in the future, we'll release a build of the engine that you can use to check out the physics and interactions of your level.

So.
If the SDK will be released soon
a BUILD of the engine will be released in a point in the future.
The game will be released in what year?

That reply made me really think that HL2 is faaaaaaaaar away