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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Apr 27th at 1:28am 2005

Direct Download:
http://illhostit.com/dedicated/HDR_LostCoast_Q01.mov

If any of you want to watch a ~50 second clip of HDR lighting at work click on that. It's that new movie that's been released on fileplanet and some other filesites.

What did you guys think?

My computer isn't anywhere near the requirements for the Lost Coast, so it was kind of nice to see what I'll be missing.
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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Apr 27th at 1:35am 2005

checkin it out now

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Nothing special...more like high dynamic-range reflection. My favorite part is where the spidery crab walks behind the stained glass smiley

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Posted by Cassius on Wed Apr 27th at 2:21am 2005

Well, CJ, it looks like Valve's taken the trouble of converting Persian Letters for you.

The second half of the video looks like Myst.





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Apr 27th at 2:28am 2005

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checkin it out now

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Nothing special...more like high dynamic-range reflection. My favorite part is where the spidery crab walks behind the stained glass



Haha reflection. Yeah I know what you mean. I really expected it to be like a boring techdemo, but then I noticed the poison crabs wandering around, which made me happy for some strange reason.

I don't know if that's a shorter video or something, but I was expecting to see a scene were someone walks indoors after being in the bright sun, and they have to wait for their eyes to adjust to the darkness. That was something they mentioned in the articles but I didn't really see in the video (unless... well what was that part with the boats about?).
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Posted by JFry on Wed Apr 27th at 2:39am 2005

The part that confuses me is at the start with the sun reflecting in the water, and then it gets dimmer... Does hdr allow dynamic enviroment lighting? I'm thinking more likely it was an illusion but it looks awfully good at that.



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Apr 27th at 2:39am 2005

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Well, CJ, it looks like Valve's taken the trouble of converting Persian Letters for you.
B-but... It's not... Persian-y enough! Yes, that's it!... *cries in corner*

Well, holy crap. Both parts look great. I can't even imagine making anything like that. Yes yes, I know it's tailored for high-spec machines so of course it'll look good, but... I almost find it hard to believe that it's actually Source!

JFry, they turned HDR off so you can see how much plainer everything looks when the whole screen isn't glowing.
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Apr 27th at 3:03am 2005

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JFry, they turned HDR off so you can see how much plainer everything looks when the whole screen isn't glowing.



Oohhhhh, so that's what that was! I was really confused by what was happening. I thought it had something to do with simulating the way your eyes adjust to light.
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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 27th at 4:25am 2005

I saw a shorter version of this that was posted on mapcore a while back, but it was really low quality and didn't show off the effect very well (was just filmed from a G4 television program that was talking about it I think). Does look rather sexy, but I don't think its all THAT huge an improvement going by the two example areas.
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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Apr 27th at 4:30am 2005

why wouldn't they just show the same area with and without hdr? [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed Apr 27th at 9:31am 2005

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What do you think?

I think the file is too damnded large.

Looks good from where I'm standing. smiley
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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Apr 27th at 9:56am 2005

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I think the file is too damnded large.


I concur. For a minute and a half 180mb is bloody rediculous.

As far as the movie goes they managed to show very little. It looks cool, though not as spectacular as they're claiming. Have to wait till I can play it though.
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Posted by G4MER on Wed Apr 27th at 10:06am 2005

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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Apr 27th at 10:12am 2005

Waaaaaaaaaah! File too big!

God....I wish all previews could be that big. I would rather take an extra few minutes to download a sweet quality vid than.......OMG THEY PACKED TWO MINUTES INTO 3 MEGS LOL ME SO HAPPY I SAVED TWO MINUTES!

If you are so worried about filespace, then delete some of your porn.

Man I'm in a bad mood. :/

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Posted by G4MER on Wed Apr 27th at 10:35am 2005

? quoting MoneyShot
LINKY NO WORKY.

DOH! Ok, Right Click, and click on Save Target As.. DUH. I got the file. And WOW!

Now the question is how hard do you think its going to be to map with these new light features? Will it be easier to have lights that go out when shot? As well as rooms that will get brighter when dirty windows are blown out?

They said on ATTACKOFTHESHOW that it will be released this spring..

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Posted by Agent Smith on Wed Apr 27th at 1:32pm 2005

? quote:
Waaaaaaaaaah! File too big!

God....I wish all previews could be that big. I would rather take an extra few minutes to download a sweet quality vid than.......OMG THEY PACKED TWO MINUTES INTO 3 MEGS LOL ME SO HAPPY I SAVED TWO MINUTES!

If you are so worried about filespace, then delete some of your porn.


Dude, I have broadband and it still took 20 mins for a minute and a half worth of footage. If you don't mind waiting that long for something that could easily have been put in something around the 30-50mb mark then good for you. Personally I felt ripped off after spending that time and monthly quota for something that short and not really very impressive.

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Posted by Dark Tree on Wed Apr 27th at 1:43pm 2005

True....for 170 megs it was a pretty bogus display of major "improvements"....

...however....it took me 4> minutes to DL with GetRight...I dunno why...

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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Wed Apr 27th at 2:36pm 2005

Can someone post screenshots? I'm still on dial-up... [addsig]



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Posted by Captain P on Wed Apr 27th at 4:34pm 2005

Screenshots:

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/half_life_2/half-life+2:+lost+coast/1/hl2_coast/d2_lostcoast.jpg
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Posted by DrGlass on Wed Apr 27th at 5:52pm 2005

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True....for 170 megs it was a pretty bogus


Not to mention that almost 20 seconds of it was the valve logo and into splash.

Dosn't look that much better than the stress test, and almost non of that was ever put into the game. Furthermore, community mappers arn't using the power of then engin because we dont know how to make all that fancy stain glass, etc.
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Posted by habboi on Wed Apr 27th at 6:04pm 2005

Mapping will not be any harder with the new lighting. All it does is improve the 'game' engine so all your maps you have made before will suddenly have dynamic lighting when it is finished.

Video was a waste of downloading but nice pictures!

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