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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jan 7th at 8:30pm 2005


Remember in the tech demo when they said we could make anything we wanted out of any material? Remember the person made of water and the fire went up behind them and you could see them?

what ever happened to that? I need to make stuff like that out of water and different materials. what gives? anyone have any idea how to do this stuff?

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Posted by Leperous on Fri Jan 7th at 8:54pm 2005


Well obviously this sort of thing isn't possible in Hammer, but it seems that models have a decent materials system- i.e. whip out that copy of XSI and make some fire people





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Posted by omegaslayer on Fri Jan 7th at 9:22pm 2005


If you remember valve said that source could do a lot more, like the 20 different facial muscles they had in characters, did they ever utilize it? No, except in the g-mans case. Lets just say that valve was hyping up their engine a bit.
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Posted by Crono on Fri Jan 7th at 9:39pm 2005


Actually, all these things are there.

There's a physics manipulator gun (I'm sure they used it for development only) which allowed you to combine physics objects and use them together.

And YES you can make hundreds of different facial animations, Omega, how do you think people make mouth movements properly in game? And there are many many many more then just 20 in ALL characters. Not just major ones.

But, anyway, I believe they were showing the engine capabilities, not what was available for editing. I'd imagine you could do some coding to make the entities. But that would lead to a mod. So, as Lep said, Models would be your best bet.

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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Jan 7th at 10:06pm 2005


? quote:
There's a physics manipulator gun (I'm sure they used it for development only) which allowed you to combine physics objects and use them together.


Someone made a mod to use that thing.
Gary's mod, I think it is.
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Posted by Crono on Fri Jan 7th at 10:55pm 2005


Oh hey, what do you know.
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Posted by Rof on Fri Jan 7th at 11:54pm 2005


The guy made out of water still exists, by the way. It's shown in the CS:S video stress test and is called something like predator.mdl. In fact the stress test is very similar to one of the E3 demo videos.

Also consider the Combine blue-with-swirly-transparent-bit barricade things. It's clear these can be made, you just need sufficient expertise with a modelling program.







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