New HLRAD?

Re: New HLRAD? Posted by Hornpipe2 on Sun Dec 21st 2003 at 7:03pm

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Posted 2003-12-21 7:03pm

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I saw this on Valve-ERC and was somewhat confused. Apparently there's a new HLRAD that does faster custom shadows stuff. It's not by Merl or Zoner so I don't know anything about it. Here's a link to the page:

http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1034150354-69206000&page=2

Check out post #32. Does anyone know anything else about this? Is it based on 2.5.3 build 17?

Re: New HLRAD? Posted by Forceflow on Sun Dec 21st 2003 at 7:12pm

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Posted 2003-12-21 7:12pm

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Never heard about it ... and I don't really trust it either.

Re: New HLRAD? Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Sun Dec 21st 2003 at 7:14pm

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Posted 2003-12-21 7:14pm

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hullu is the one who coded the custom shadows (the colored bit, at least) that was included in HLRad anyway. Merl included it with his own code for the MHLT 1.7 build.

Re: New HLRAD? Posted by Campaignjunkie on Sun Dec 21st 2003 at 8:58pm

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Posted 2003-12-21 8:58pm

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And it's not faster. If you used that colored shadow stuff, your compile time will increase dramatically. Not sure how fast this new tool is though - I have to admit I've never used the colored shadows too extensively.

Re: New HLRAD? Posted by Hornpipe2 on Mon Dec 22nd 2003 at 9:39pm

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Posted 2003-12-22 9:39pm

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I think he implied that he's optimized the colored shadows part and put them in this code. I don't think he meant that colored shadows were fast in the first place.