City17 aims to bring the player a Rebel perspective of the Half Life 2 Universe. From the City Streets to the Canals, City17 Ventures through the Episode 1 timeline.


City17 also brings a list of graphical Features towards the Source Engine Including:

  • Volumetric Lighting, creating god rays and volume light shafts.

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  • Dynamic Lighting, including scalable lighting at realtime, with proper occlusion, and realtime shadowing.
  • Improved AI, resulting in more realistic battles, and smarter Opponents.
  • Dynamic Triggering System, giving the player a choice of different paths, resulting in highly contrasted game play.
  • Improved Radiosity, creating realistic lit scenes.
  • Phong Shading, adding depth and realism to more of the characters and models around you.

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Welcome to the City17: Episode 1 September update! This month's going to be a short and sweet update, instead of the usual 3 day updates, but we at Team Gear feel that we've packed plenty of great new info and features into this update.


The Options Menu

Will City17 set your video card on fire? Probably. Since we first began working on the coding aspect of City17, we've been continually making engine optimizations and adding options to disable our frame-rate lowering improvements in an attempt to not set your video card on fire, or you. So, we've implemented a state of the art Options Menu.

With Tabs, and Organization!


Through the tabs within the menu players can lower some of the various things we've added to the engine for more performance. The menu also holds controls to FaceAPI, and the Maxsi Distribution system.



This thing isn't radioactive, is it?


Nothing more need be said. Just keep in mind, the map featured in these screen shots is old, and was cut out long ago.



This is a video we set up to show off our projected texture enhancements, such as adjustable shadow blur amounts, and parenting. The video also demonstrates our new and improved water particles, which actually send up individual droplets of water, each of which make their own ripples. It's really quite amazing to view in motion.


Projected Texture Performance Enhancements


Projected textures now have an option to use pre-rendered shadows instead of rendering them in real time, allowing for DX7,8, and performance conscious 9 users to increase their framerates, while still retaining most features.


Projected Texture Based Muzzle Flashes


Much like Valve's Left 4 Dead, City17: Episode 1 now has muzzle flash lighting that casts real time shadows, giving a more cinematic feeling to the game. The light's intensity dynamically adjusts between indoor environments and outdoor environments.


City17: Episode 1 Wallpapers

Get them while they're hot!


These come in bitmap format at a resolution of 1920x1080. That's 5MB of raw, uncompressed awesome per wallpaper image.


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And that's it for this month! Catch us on PlanetPhillip within the week for some awesome exclusive media.

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gigan2000
gigan2000 Sep 2 2009, 10:22am says:

this mod looks amazing cant wait for it to come

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Stoudemire15
Stoudemire15 Aug 31 2009, 8:40pm says:

Hey, Should I help you to created a website at Combine wiki for your mod or I just write down the mod at the main Wikipedia website also I already created a tiny information at list of Source engine mod take a look.

Link:
En.wikipedia.org

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thegentleman
thegentleman Aug 30 2009, 7:33am says:

This looks like it will be an incredible mod. From looking at the latest update it looks like there will be loads of new content.

I await eagerly.

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Nicklan
Nicklan Aug 28 2009, 6:01pm says:

Frikkin amazing.I got a question.Do we get weapons randomly or in different occasions???Like in places where the fits at.Like in half-life 1

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Vosla
Vosla Aug 27 2009, 1:59pm says:

Yes, very nice. Cool update. Now I am just waiting a bit more for relaeas... :-)

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xxghostkillxx
xxghostkillxx Aug 27 2009, 12:16am says:

This mod looks incredible!

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Stoudemire15
Stoudemire15 Aug 26 2009, 4:08am says:

City 17 : Episode one were been better than City 17 beta that piece of crap mod with a lot of bug making me cannot play and I prefect this one it using a massive Source Engine to create it were been better than any mod including the Adam Foster masterpiece MINERVA : Metastasis.

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Aug 26 2009, 4:12am replied:

Minerva is Fantastic, it personally got me into modding, along with Nightfall.

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Stoudemire15
Stoudemire15 Aug 26 2009, 4:17am replied:

Unfortunately, we won't seeing MINERVA Sequel as Adam Foster work with Valve as develop Half-Life 2: Episode Three, Left 4 dead 2 and Portal 2 it were take a longer time to wait a mod to been finished.

Also, Valve were been very proud of you because there were probably using a massive source engine to make the Half-Life 2: Episode Three or Portal 2.

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Killer_man_1996
Killer_man_1996 Sep 7 2009, 7:04pm replied:

Yep this is a way better work than Valve ones....

looks pretty cool and all that things...

but i have a little question... How much MB or GB is this gonna have...?

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