New HL2 movie

Re: New HL2 movie Posted by DocRock on Fri Sep 12th 2003 at 4:41pm

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Direct off the VERC site: New HL2 Movie

http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?news=1063319154-65935800

Chris 'autolycus' Bokitch
Proving that life goes on outside of Steam, Doug Lombardi sent me a short note about the Source DirectX 9.0 effects trailer. It's out. (I said short, didn't I?) Doug writes,

This short trailer shows some of the DX9-specific effects possible in Valve's Source engine, the same engine used to power the upcoming Half-Life 2.

Specifically shown in this trailer:

High-dynamic range rendering (for rendering realistic outdoor scenes, produces glows and saturated colors in bright areas of the scene).

Bump-mapped characters (containing both diffuse + reflective bumpmapping, DX8 only has reflective bumpmapping).

Soft shadows.

This is a very impressive movie. Awesome. Check it out!!

Re: New HL2 movie Posted by ReNo on Fri Sep 12th 2003 at 5:17pm

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Posted 2003-09-12 5:17pm

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I'm back at home on my modem connection just now, but I'll be sure to download this as soon as I get back into uni, sounds interesting :smile: