Tweaking HL2?

[samuraisam]

I want to take some screenshots that look _amazing_ to use in desktops, etc. Fan-art and other wowers for nay-sayers of PC gaming (IE: Advocates (loud ones) of the XBox 360).

My question is, what are the cvars that I can use to make the source engine not dynamically take away my polygons? I want everything to look as if it were running on the very top end hardware available today. I do have a DX9 compatible card but I don't care about framerates (since this is for screenshot purpose only).

I just want to turn EVERYTHING up.

Thanks,
-Sam

 

[_Meitsi_]

cl_ragdoll_collide 1

 

[Godlesswanderer]

Just go into the graphics/video options in the main menu and turn it all to high. I think that's the way .

 

[Murray]

Umm, I think he's reffering to the fact that no matter what settings you're using, the details on objects far away still will lower in detail because otherwise it would perform a terrible amount of FPS.
Level of Detail(Distance?) (LoD) I think it's called.

To be honest, I'd like to know that too.

 

[jondy]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=56985

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74435&highlight=change+view+distance

These threads cover props and grass fading; I don't know how to change the actual render distance.

 

[SFPL1]

try r_lod -5
increases polygone count or r_lod 5 significantly lowers polygone count
my pc is r_lod -2 as standard.
hope this helps

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

normally when u take a screenshot its only 90 % quality, so remember to put jpeg_quality 100

 

[Lahire149]

www.tweakguides.com
on the leaft click on half life 2

 

[samuraisam]

Well... let's see.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1596077#post1596077

-Sam

 

[Beerdude26]

Well... let's see.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1596077#post1596077

-Sam

I was waiting until you were going to post that

That about covers it. I probably have some ancient commands lying around, but I'm too lazy to go and find them