CS:S using HL2 engine.. or not?

[Inanimate]

I noticed by watching alot of videos of HL2 that if you shoot the legs off a table etc, it falls really naturally, like a table IRL would fall.. same goes with the demo they showed off, I think it was the E3 2003 video, as you shoot on a wood-thingy that is supported by 4 sticks made of wood.. and if you shoot one of them, it starts to lean etc...

In CS:S that won´t happen if you shoot the legs off a table etc..
Since it´s the same engine, shouldn´t it have the same possibilities?

/Daniel

 

[Mandelbrot]

HL2 and CS:S use the Source engine. The table doesn't lean because it wasn't programmed that way in the Hammer editor. You could make the table's leg breakable, but that's your choice as a map maker.

 

[[sl@yer]]

The physics have been cut down as CS:S is online, but it is still the same engine.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

The physics in CS:S are toned down from those in HL2 singleplayer.

 

[switch]

some physics elements may have been taken out to help latency issues / notcode whatever. Too much physics will cause lag.

 

[Gunner]

some physics elements may have been taken out to help latency issues / notcode whatever. Too much physics will cause lag.

Not lag but slowdowns, physics are really cpu intensive :O

 

[Absinthe]

It uses the Unreal engine. Duh.