Half Life 2 Question Thread

Can someone please tell me what the polygon limits on models will be for hl2 or where I could find that info? Thanks!

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I would need the info specifically for vehicles

Edited by: e-labs.ecion

sorry, well, im not sure if that info is available yet.

lots n lots

The information won't be released until the SDK is released, so you know just as much as we do about that answer

sdk in 4 weeks but for the poly limits it will be:

player 8000 or less depends on your v/card

The SDK's releasing in 4 weeks? Where did you hear this?

my sources!

i do get news from people who live and play hl2 daily

lots n lots

Well, did they put this up on a web site or something? I'm about to crap my pants if it's really coming out in 4 weeks

nope its not on the site yet.....things can change but my source is a good one

If it's not Gabe Newell or Doug Lombardi, then it's questionable. heheh

Players are around 4000 polys-ish I bet, and "star" NPCs would be 8000-ish because of their ideal appearance to lipsync n' crap like that.

The source has the sdk and he said if your making state of the art mod and you want only people with top end pc's you could make the player models 8000.

Karuto wrote: Gabe Newell.... heheh

kekekekeke.
fix0red

He has the SDK? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? lol

I need to beg my way into getting one

You cant get it till they release it

ok.. so if u say average around 4k - 5k for the midrange pcs.. would that work?...if humans are 8k (top-end) what would or could vehicles have?. Coz we'll have a huge number of different vehicles in psycho hill... so I just want to make sure that we won't put the poly count too high :-\

Thanks for all the info up to this point guys

CS:S's players are 3000 polys each (a guestimate)

Whats high end for HL2 its req are so low.

It's because the game can fluctuate, like the original Half-Life, to run on both low-end and high-end computers. The more polys you pour into your models, the better it looks, but you'd need higher specs to make sure it runs right.

Basically, every game should be like Half-Life 2, in respects to being able to work on both kinds of computers

yeah I agree... that would make things so much more pleasant for gamers.

Preload 6 is out. Maps.

Pengus wrote: Whats high end for HL2 its req are so low.

Close, but no cheese puffs.
6.5k. 3k would be like ut2003.

I think u kinda hit the wrong quote :-P..

but yeah.. what about the vehicles? My vehicle modeller needs to know for the different vehicles (trucks, police cars, pick ups, etc.) he has to model.

no clue on cars but i would again stick to what type of mod do you want.

if all your models are high 7000 8000 polys you will be making your mod for high end pc's and the high end v/cards.