Obscenely crude textures!

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Is there some official info on the subject of very low quality textures in HL2, I got a phobia while playing HL2 not to get too close to anything so I wouldn't see how crude the textures are.

IF Halo or Serious Sam 2 can do it why can't HL2?

Believe it or not I even sent an email concerning this to every valve email I could find and got absolutely no answer!

I keep hearing of all those millions spent, where the heck did they went, when you could pick any aspect of a certain older game that surpasses HL2 in that particular aspect?
 
low quality textures? really? man I thought they looked great....wow
 
hentai said:
Believe it or not I even sent an email concerning this to every valve email I could find and got absolutely no answer!
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Haha I'm not surprised.

hentai said:
I keep hearing of all those millions spent, where the heck did they went.
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Yeah all of them went missing, there is nothing else in the game, it's a complete black hole. It's a myth but some people believe Doug has been embezzling the Valve, and Gabe doesn't know. Oooooh, but seriously if you are put off by textures in a game so very deep, then you are obscenely shallow. Perhaps the choice of 'hentai' as a user name isn't ideal if you wish to be taken seriously also.
 
Well you would know of all people, considering you know me so well. You must be very hard to please if HL2's textures are giving you much grief when the storyline, graphics, physics, atmosphere & music all pull the game together to be voted one of the best ever. Maybe we are all wrong.
 
It did, I cried for 40 days and 40 nights after realising the gravity gun wasn't actually plausible in real life. I've also grown a goatee beard since, not spoken a word in 2 years. Sometimes I wish when I run the tap that the water would look more realistic like in HL2.
 
damn thats ruff...so anyways...whens duke nukem forever coming out...I heard that game had some BANGIN graphics!! rofl
 
Oh noes, Hentai's 486 can't run HL2 at high graphics? Then it's true! The textures suck on mat_picmip 3!
CONSPIRACY!
 
Vote thread a) locked or b) merged into Hentai's other graphics-complaining thread.

You don't need two topics on this.
 
Is this it?
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/gamespace/download.php?pid=914642&sid=6131748&mode=

in the description it just emphasizes character skins and models...I don't think this is like Deus Ex: Invisible War where everything was replaced...it doesn't say anything about surfaces and what about textures for Episode 1?

and I have 2GB of ram.

P.S.
You are right, Halo does have detailed textures, when you get close it get's sharper, now isn't that funny, Halo is not just older but a console port and even he has better texture then "supreme" "expensive" HL2!

Appaling...just appaling!
 
So here's a tip.

Uninstall HL2

Uninstall Steam.

Log out of halflife2.net
 
btw, I have sent a lot of emails to valve about all kinds of stuff and foolishness they made but I got no response at all, maybe it got accidently marked as spam considering how much email they get.

So I was thinking, if somebody here has some "connections" with them maybe he could point them to my posts, it would be a real shame if they keep doing the same mistakes all over again in any future projects, and after all they should know what people(their customers) really think!
 
your question was:

hentai said:
I keep hearing of all those millions spent, where the heck did they went, when you could pick any aspect of a certain older game that surpasses HL2 in that particular aspect?
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Which was, frankly, a particularly stupid question. Your constant attempts to pick apart on HL2 on a fansite dedicated to it suggests that you are either a troll (and not a very good one) or just intellectually suicidal.

Also, for the record, I define how the moderators behave, not you. If you don't like it, feel free to leave at any time.
 
hentai said:
I asked a question and this is not the answer, you are acting childish, not befitting a moderator status.
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lol. I think the only childish person here is you. Well, Mr Hentai?

Anyway, if people think your computer cannot support high-detailed textures, you'd better name your display card, instead of your RAM. Of course, RAM is related. if you have 128M RAM, it'll be really sucked. Even though you have 2G RAM, with a old-fashioned display card with insufficient textures memory, the whole thing still sucks.

Yet, we must admit that the textures of Half-Life 2 are not really that good. There is space for improvement. But the way you voice out is really unsophisticated and disagreeable. You are speaking like "all the graphics of Half-Life 2 are sucked and the whole game sucks and it is not worth buying and the game is made for money-washing". Listen, no game can be made well-rounded. There are always flaws. Halo textures is good but the storyline is not as good as Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 has some break-through tech. and nice characters, but the textures are not drawn perfectly. Every thing has its own flaws. The textures in the game are more than acceptable in my opinion. It is good to voice out your opinion but the way you do it, or the words you used are far from adult.
 
Right, Hentai, here is what you do:

Download this tool here: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VTFEdit
Now, read this page and select one method that you think will be most practical for you: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Creating_Normal_Maps
If you selected Photoshop, make sure you download this tool aswell: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

Install all of them. Good! Now you're all set to start putting bumpmaps on every single goddamn texture in the game.

When you're done with that, make sure you have a look at this page: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Parallax

If you'd like, you can also add heightmaps (and thus parallax maps) to every single texture in the game AND tweak them one by one.

According to my calculations, you could have already modified 20 textures while reading this forum. Hurry up, man!
 
hentai said:
I asked a question and this is not the answer, you are acting childish, not befitting a moderator status.
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You are the only person I have ever seen, online, offline, or otherwise, who has ever complained about the graphical quality of Half-Life 2.
 
Hentai may have a point after all.

Even Unreal 1 had more detailed textures than HL2, especially with a 3DFX card. And that was back in 1998! Unreal 1 came out in the summer of that year. In fact, when HL1 came out at the end of that year, even then it was graphically inferior to Unreal 1. Still blew seven shades out of Quake 2, though.
 
TaoFan said:
Hentai may have a point after all.

Even Unreal 1 had more detailed textures than HL2, especially with a 3DFX card. And that was back in 1998! Unreal 1 came out in the summer of that year. In fact, when HL1 came out at the end of that year, even then it was graphically inferior to Unreal 1. Still blew seven shades out of Quake 2, though.
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I got it! Here lies the problem-

Cognitive disonance refers to the concept that when a
person comes across information inconsistent with his or her own
strongly held beliefs, the information is perceived as "noise" or
"disonance" so grating on the belief system as to simply be unheard in
any manner except as obnoxious noise. Thus, the information is never
accepted as real information, only as discardable, unpleasant noise.

So, when you point such an obvious thing that HL2 has very poor textures(which is really bizarre when you think about it), much poorer then even older similar games, the only kind of response you can get on HL2 fansite is pure hostility and "ridicule".
 
HL2 has higher resolution textures than most older games. What it doesn't use is detail textures for close-up viewing. In no way can you refer to the textures used in HL2 as "very poor". Unless you're really stupid.

Hostility and ridicule are responses to stupidity, not cognitive dissonance.
 
Well I am refering to close viewing all the time, I mentioned Halo to this affect haven't I?
 
If you want to spend all your time playing with your nose up against the wall, be my guest. Personally, I'd rather play the game.
 
Halo uses 256 x 256 textures, with a tiled 128 x 128 detail map. And for lighting effects it even uses the prehistoric black and white bump map. HL2 uses a 512x512 texture, with normalmaps and even parralex maps. The texture size is bigger then most PS3 games are using. Soo mister Hentai, I understand you hate pixels but you dont know what youre talking about !

-dodo

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Pi Mu Rho said:
If you want to spend all your time playing with your nose up against the wall, be my guest. Personally, I'd rather play the game.
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what a cop out! :p cognitive disonance all over again!
I even feel stupid by stating the obvious(again) that you can't go trough playing a game without getting close to something all the time, and here you are, trying to be witty based on that!

@Dodo, just one test, get a close up on anything in Halo and then do the same in HL2, both in equal resolution, then report back with the findings!
 
Hentai this is the second thread you have created to highlight your sheer stupidity and ignorance. I’m locking this based on the fact that you’re a moron.

Follow said advice and leave.

Pi Mu Rho said:
So here's a tip.

Uninstall HL2

Uninstall Steam.

Log out of halflife2.net
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hentai said:
what a cop out! :p cognitive disonance all over again!
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No, that's just how I play. Obviously, it's a game-breaker for you. Doesn't affect me in the slightest.

I even feel stupid by stating the obvious(again) that you can't go trough playing a game without getting close to something all the time, and here you are, trying to be witty based on that!
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Like I said, it happens and doesn't bother me. In ANY game.

@Dodo, just one test, get a close up on anything in Halo and then do the same in HL2, both in equal resolution, then report back with the findings!
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I'd rather have high-res base textures than low-res detail textures.
 
hentai said:
Every time I post something you are making fun of me, if you don't have anything intelligent to say just shut the f**k up!

Moderator should start doing his job and protect me from spammers!:sniper:
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Were going to follow your advice and get around to doing our jobs. Hentai: You're banned.
 
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