Black Mesa: Source Thread

Black Mesa: Source is a fully pledged modification founded by the LeakFree Source Engine Development Community. Those involved with the project want to make the Black Mesa Research Facility a place to be known far and wide as Gordon's fruitful beginning and what better way to demonstrate that love, but to recreate the game that formed one of the largest gaming communities in the world.

Black Mesa: Source is a Half-Life 2 modification determined to recreate Half-Life 1 on the Source Engine from the ground up, keeping the original as much intact as it possibly can meaning plotlines, concepts, ideas, level layouts, characters, weapons and monsters will be left the same, except with MASSIVE graphical improvements. We intend to increase polycounts on monsters, weapons, NPCs, weapons and more and put forth the Black Mesa Research Facility the way it was meant to be seen and to give players the chance to fight the battle the way it was meant to be fought. Chapters and the Facility itself will be rebuilt from the ground up with care taken to keep most of the areas the same, but with major improvements in design, architexture, and more.

If you feel you have the dedication and talent to help out with this modification, drop a line in these forums with some previous work. If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments or more feel free to also drop us a line. Everything is well accepted. We are presently in need of dedicated modellers and texture artists willing to help us recreate the original textures and models.

I thought HL2 came with HL1 turned onto the HL2 engine already?

but it's exactly like the original, even without the HD pack

They want to make HL1 one as if it was totally remade and feel like HL2. Best idea ever.

Moddb.com

One thread is enough

Though this is focused on the mod, not the site. So considerably its not the same thread.

Sounds a lot like HL-Improvement

Hl-improvement.com

sounds like a good idea.. to me.

i like this idea

This idea will probably be done by lots just like those Hell on Earth mods....

or those stupid gargolye mods

teh_fonx wrote: or those stupid gargolye blue wang sex mods

Fixxored

Second, what mods improve hl or hl2 and actually finish. So there ain't too many when most will not succeed. Second, HL Improvment was one of many but it was the only one that has succeeded.

I'm glad a lot of have a lot of positive feedback on Black Mesa: Source. We'd like to hear any ideas you have over at our forums: (http://forums.leakfree.org) so feel free to post.

Kalashnikov wrote: I'm glad a lot of have a lot of positive feedback on Black Mesa: Source. We'd like to hear any ideas you have over at our forums: (http://forums.leakfree.org) so feel free to post.

I've tryed that too, I have tryed nearly any ploy to get people to post in your mod's forum you can think of. They never post you know, not unless you actually tell them too.

isnt that Half-Life: Source???

if it ain't broken.. Don't fix it.

No. HL:S is NOT HL1 to the same level of quality as HL2. It uses the SOurce Engine, yes, but that's about it. The graphics are ighly below par (that's a paradox) and the gun models are the ones used in Opposing Forces. YOu can read so on halflife2.net

Personally, I'd like to see someone make a mod where you play as Dr. Kleiner and use kung-fu action to fight crime!

i dunno i think it would be kidna neat too see the orignial updated, though the amount of work that is required seems like a challenge beyound most mod teams abilities.

Than aggain, its only the art side that you would need to worry about.

IIRC HL:S is more a proof of concept of how easy it is to convert things, and VALVe are going to be slowly sourcifying it.

jacksonj04 wrote: IIRC HL:S is more a proof of concept of how easy it is to convert things, and VALVe are going to be slowly sourcifying it.

Sounds good. I think I heard this once, but disregarded it as word of mouth.

teh_fonx wrote: or those stupid gargolye mods

pawnd.