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City 17: Episode 1

Half-Life 2 mod | TBD

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.

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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24 comments by QuarterLife on Oct 1st, 2009 digg this super bookmark

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.

Projected Texture Parenting & Improved Water Particles

City 17: Episode 1 Mod for Half-Life 2 City17: Episode 1 | September Media Release video - Mod DB

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.

That's it!

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

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