Half-Life 2 Film Making

[rec]

Half-Life 2 community member, Pendragon, has posted HalfLife2Files.com a copy of an e-mail conversion that recently took place with Gabe Newell regarding film making inside the Source engine. For those of you with an interest in the scene, here's what was said:

Pendragon: I was curious about the potential of the HL2 editing suite and the Source engine. If a team was able to create sets and characters and script the action, etc. would the Source engine be able to render this as a movie? If so, would it be possible to set it so that Source renders it not in realtime but at whatever rate is needed to achieve a set level of detail? I was inspired by part of the E3 demo video that the Source engine might be an ideal platform for CG videos, sort of like a garage version of Pixar.

Gabe Newell: Yes you can set the framerate to whatever rate you want and render frames accordingly.

 

[strider]

sounds like a great idea.. i have been watching the HL2 movies over 34 times. :cheese: