Anyone Concerned

[DrunkPanda]

about how the graphics for half life 2 mods are going to look? on moddb, i've looked at a lot of the mods screenshots and the graphics don't look too much better than the ones for half life 1. definitely not anything close to the graphics of games that came out even 2 years ago i think. i guess the artists just aren't talented enough to make the graphics look high quality like the newer games. :bonce:.
i know graphics aren't everything but they ARE something and i hope i get proven wrong by thinking the half life 2 mods won't look much prettier than half life 1 mods.

 

[The Mullinator]

None of those are intended to be final. When making mods graphics aren't necessarily the thing that they concentrate on first. Besides, up until now there hasn't been much of a reason to even try to be artistic due to the lack of the game and SDK.

 

[Steve]

That's because HL2 itself didn't look much better than the original!

(braces for impact) JOKING! JOKING!

 

[DrunkPanda]

None of those are intended to be final. When making mods graphics aren't necessarily the thing that they concentrate on first. Besides, up until now there hasn't been much of a reason to even try to be artistic due to the lack of the game and SDK.

oh yeah. i kinda forgot the sdk wasn't out yet cuz i was just focused on the surprise

 

[f|uke]

Well they're certainly not going to look as good as HL2,.

But I do think the mod community needs a lot of evolution with texturing and mapping in order to put out anything of worth. No worries, they're just getting their feet wet now.

 

[F34R]

about how the graphics for half life 2 mods are going to look? on moddb, i've looked at a lot of the mods screenshots and the graphics don't look too much better than the ones for half life 1. definitely not anything close to the graphics of games that came out even 2 years ago i think. i guess the artists just aren't talented enough to make the graphics look high quality like the newer games. :bonce:.
i know graphics aren't everything but they ARE something and i hope i get proven wrong by thinking the half life 2 mods won't look much prettier than half life 1 mods.

The weapons have the ability to look the best possible if it is modeled and skinned right because HL2 uses the lastest rendering and graphics engine. :upstare:

 

[Sir_Shunt]

Yeah all the currently posted pics can't be really right, since the SDK isn't out yet, but it's be unlikely there'll be mod that look as good and detailed and HL2 in the near future, simply cause MOD makers have less manpower and time.
But do note that after a few years mods in HL started to look better and better, and much more was pulled out of the engine then the original game did (Computers better, compilers got better, engine updates, etc etc), I'm thinking the same will happen for HL2.
But although HL2 was prolly the most beautifull game I ever played, I still think it's about gameplay first. Think about Natural Selection for example if the gameplay would've sucked. Lot less gorges that would be healthspraying

 

[Grumpy]

Mods will most likely fall into 2 types..those that are direct ports and later versions add the pretty stuff ( DoD:S is probably in this basket) and those that are fully coded from scratch to use the full features of Source..and will take a lot longer to appear