Turns out animation sprays are possible. Can you imagine the vulgarity?

[ShinRa]

I can see it now. People spraying full length porn movies, stick death movies, clips from movies...it's going to be awesome, yet very demanding on the comp and server no? Or is there an animation restriction?

 

[Gunner]

You mean like an animated gif for example?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

hmmmmm, the possibilities.

I acn just imagine a annimated terrorist on CS2 running at you from a wall. Or so it seams LOL!

 

[Dan]

you can do that already in HL1, the only problem is that it cant be more than 10 frames and it can't loop, it will only animate once.

 

[Lucifer Crass]

Will get laggy if to many people spray animated stuff

It will be fun but i hope someone doesnt try to crash a server with it

 

[Joeyslucky22]

they'll make a limit to the size of the file im sure...

imagine what porn sprays will be like now... :cheese: lol..

i'm an animator and im sure i'll have GREAT fun with this new feature.. but eh.. where was it confirmed that you can use GIFs?

 

[Think]

animation sprays does and will suck forever

 

[Flyingdebris]

isn't there a delay between sprays? as long as people can't spam sprays all over the place then it should all be good.

 

[Joeyslucky22]

Originally posted by coolio2man
you can do that already in HL1, the only problem is that it cant be more than 10 frames and it can't loop, it will only animate once.

can you do it on steam?... if so please tell

 

[Gunner]

You can always disable client side download I suppose.

 

[Archangel]

hm...I'd love to have meetings over the internet to watch a certain movie...now that'd be cool. oh well, they will for sure make a sizelimit, cause you can't just upload a 200 MB movie (not with ADSL).

 

[krarg]

...because of course, everybody would WANT to make 200MB sprays? He said "animated," that doesn't mean full length cinema.

 

[Echelon]

someone write a mod with unlimited filesize i will make a ciname map where everybody just stands there and watches a movie

 

[Solid Snake]

Very creative Echelon. Hollywood pirating taken to a new level... Can't wait.

 

[Chris D]

Originally posted by Joeyslucky22
they'll make a limit to the size of the file im sure...
i'm an animator and im sure i'll have GREAT fun with this new feature.. but eh.. where was it confirmed that you can use GIFs?

Well they're hardly going to let you use sprays that are 90 minutes long.
It wasn't confirmed that GIFs can be used. It was VXT or something like that. Not a file type I've heard of before so I guess additional tools will be needed to create and compile the spray.

 

[Guest]

I can't believe there are people here such as guinny that thinks the possibility of making a 200mb porn or just 3 mb movie into a .gif and uploading it by cable modem... rofl

Maybe a limit of 100k JPEG/GIF/PNG and 'no loop option' should go fine... I think Gabe already thought this out!

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by Solid Snake
Very creative Echelon. Hollywood pirating taken to a new level... Can't wait.

It was a good idea, tightass.

 

[Hudson]

heh, im a bit of a flash animator so i cant wait to turn some of my stuff into sprays.

 

[oMarKs]

Originally posted by Echelon
someone write a mod with unlimited filesize i will make a ciname map where everybody just stands there and watches a movie

that would be funny

 

[Gunner]

Originally posted by schweppes
It was a good idea, tightass.

Don't mind him, he's from the Film Industry...

 

[FiVe7]

They will probably take it out in the first patch...















If they know whats good for the game.

 

[subs]

Originally posted by sharp
I can't believe there are people here such as guinny that thinks the possibility of making a 200mb porn or just 3 mb movie into a .gif and uploading it by cable modem... rofl

Maybe a limit of 100k JPEG/GIF/PNG and 'no loop option' should go fine... I think Gabe already thought this out!

we'll always have our newbies, dont pick on them.

 

[Chicky]

Originally posted by FiVe7
They will probably take it out in the first patch...
If they know whats good for the game.

care to elaborate casue that doesnt make sense

 

[OCybrManO]

I knew it was in HL for a long time.
Every time you use your animated spray in HL all of the other copies of it play the animation.

Even if they fix that, it just doesn't look right... spray paint that moves?

 

[Ridic]

server side option definitly. Could create major lag and or be inappropriate.

 

[Prince of China]

Hey, we could use a lil' humor while playing Half-Life 2. Watching a stick person die and a headcrab would be satisfying.

 

[Ridic]

Would you like to see a 60 year old woman getting banged by a kid?

Im sure there are some ******s out there that would make that a spray.

 

[FAK3R]

Originally posted by guinny
I can see it now. People spraying full length porn movies, stick death movies, clips from movies...it's going to be awesome, yet very demanding on the comp and server no? Or is there an animation restriction?

There will most likely be a limit to the file size

 

[Korgoth]

excuse my ignorance (never play mp much) what is a spray exactly?

 

[Deadline]

It would be so awsome to go into a HL2 room and spray the 500 MB Gameplay trailer and just sit there and watch it... woohooo!!! what fun.:cheese:

 

[Gorgon]

Hi chris_d,
VXT is Virtual memory capability-The InfoServer system provides the terminal with additional memory as needed to display more applications. As a result, the terminal needs less installed memory than when you use host-based operation. Means this VXT tech will allow you yo use big animated files which require less memory.
I hop they include the tech.

 

[subs]

OMFG. he said animated gifs not a MPEG or DIVX file. jesus. you people..

 

[Ridic]

Originally posted by subs
OMFG. he said animated gifs not a MPEG or DIVX file. jesus. you people..

4 frames of senior citizen porn is enough to make me go blind.

 

[subs]

lol

 

[Northwood83]

Originally posted by subs
OMFG. he said animated gifs not a MPEG or DIVX file. jesus. you people..

Its rather easy to take screenshots of mpegs, and divx files. They can be converted into any picture format.

As for pirating movies...Yeah good luck with that. Enjoy the movie without sound, and most likely low resolution. Id like to see people downloading the file over the span of 5 hours as well. Maybe even longer since the game will most likely limit the speed it can go so it will not affect the players ping too much.

 

[subs]

my point is they wont allow things that huge dont you get me.... Just like sprays.

 

[SpuD]

Dude, thats awesome, I cant wait to do that!

 

[Adam]

Originally posted by guinny
yet very demanding on the comp and server no? Or is there an animation restriction?

THat kind of rendering would be completely client side, furthermore, since when did something similair to an animated gif become cpu intensive? You MUST be joking when you said that... I mean honestly now...lol

Also for everyones information, HL1 used to support animated spray logos, I found out a method to reproduce this in HL and wrote a tutorial which can be read at http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~wss/tutor.php?id=2

After masses of noob Counter-Strike players started emailing Valve complaining about the few people who created an animated logo of a planted bomb (THe logo was a bomb complete with blinking red light) that they thought was another cheat, Valve simply disabled animated logos by decreasing the number of recongnized lumps allowed to be uploaded to the server per logo .wad So basicaly, animated logos are disabled right now. But it was fun while it lasted. (Heh, only a few months. Which is why so few knew about it.)

 

[XtAkm4p]

it would be intersting to see if someone could code a spray to be a direct feed of a certain area of the map....

doubt if its possible tho

 

[nw909]

Just make a smacker video.