About the Gordon Face Model...

[thethingexe]

I thought of this a long time ago but never brought it up.
In the "Raising the Bar" Art book you see the People of Valve talking about how making the face model of Gordan was very hard and took lots of people to do it. But then how come we never see it in the game of even have it in sdk? Did it just go to waste? or maybe in the expansion as you play as Alyx? I'm confused

 

[Mechagodzilla]

It was probably used as the model for all that concept art floating around.
Should an expansion happen in a non-Freeman perspective, you can bet they will put it to use on any Freeman model.

Then, of course, there's the obvious answer that they made the head so that something would fill a page of the making-of book.

 

[Fliko]

Apparently, the expansion with Alyx was a hoax.
Gordon has no model, just a grey body, to mark hitboxes etc.
Maybe it was suppose to be a drawing, and that had trouble drawing Gordon's face?

 

[slashandburn]

Remember the gorden model wasn't origonally going to ship with half-life 1. It's only in there because of hl1 multiplayer.

They'll give it to us when the time is right.

 

[thethingexe]

Well they have that HEV suit just stick the head model on... =]

Btw did neone notice that the Freeman face Model In Raising the Bar without the Glasses looks like Justin Timbilake

 

[LittleB]

Well they have that HEV suit just stick the head model on... =]

Btw did neone notice that the Freeman face Model In Raising the Bar without the Glasses looks like Justin Timbilake

No way... Gordon is teh sex.... Justin is like ugly pudding

 

[thethingexe]

True True =/

Lots of ppl have tried to make Gordan models but they... aren't as good...

 

[cold soul]

http://www.svencoop.com/screenshot_pics/SvenCoop2_Promo02.jpg

agreed

 

[thethingexe]

...why doesn't the Link work??? neway http://www.svencoop.com at the bottom

Another One
These are those "Tries"

 

[ríomhaire]

I heard that in Kleiner's lab you can pick up a special shiny box and you see Gordon's reflection. I never tried it out cause it sounded like a hoax but maybe that's it.

 

[zodiak]

I heard that in Kleiner's lab you can pick up a special shiny box and you see Gordon's reflection. I never tried it out cause it sounded like a hoax but maybe that's it.

Thats just a hoax.

 

[cold soul]

...why doesn't the Link work??? neway http://www.svencoop.com at the bottom

Another One
These are those "Tries"

Darn non-working link. The svencoop one was the one i tried to link to, thank you

 

[Ratz]

Dont need a official one because the one that was made for the Svencoop 2 and was posted on the news page a few weeks ago on www.svencoop.com was phenomenal

 

[Fliko]

It is really good, I think that, maybe if Gordon had a small neck, instead of none, It would look better

EDIT: Welcome to the fourm Rats

 

[hi_ted]

They could have been talking about the advertising such as the ATi coupons where they had to use high definition models made in XSI.

 

[Danimal]

...why doesn't the Link work??? neway http://www.svencoop.com at the bottom

Another One
These are those "Tries"

That's actually pretty good.

 

[thethingexe]

yer... we all don't really have 5 free years to model an 1,000,000 poly face

 

[G-Dub]

That's actually pretty good.

Are you talking about the "Another One"?

I thought that one was pretty spot on! :thumbs:

 

[LittleB]

The "Another One" one looks like a model for HL1 (in terms of poly count and texture)