Just a quick little update news - Triage Mod for Half-Life 2

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Triage is a single-player campaign for Half-Life 2: Episode Two set in the beginning of the City 17 uprising, a few days after Gordon Freeman's disappearance in Nova Prospekt. You play as a citizen who narrowly escapes execution by the metropolice, and must fight alongside the resistance to survive.

Report article Just a quick little update

Introducing some cool new effects, and our new mapper, AlexCrafter!

Posted by wilsonC on Jul 29th, 2009 digg this super bookmark

First off I`d like to introduce to everyone our new mapper, AlexCrafter. He`s an experienced source mapper, having created maps for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Prison Island and Zombie Master, and developing the mod Sity . You can take a look at his website if you`re interested.

Now the update... Nothing really mindblowing, just pictures of some new bumpmaps and refraction effects in action. Be patient, the animated gifs may take a while to load.

EDIT July 30, 2009: I'm going to listen to you guys, I realized the bump maps are kind of unnatural looking. I'm going to redo them, I'll show them off in the next update.

They were made using a combination of CrazyBump, Photoshop (and the Nvidia plugin) and the normal map tool in TheBestFlash`s SSBump Generator. Here`s some pictures of the refraction effects: (these pictures were posted about a week ago)

The water ripple effects use the new Orange Box particles, allowing them to refract and fade in and out properly. Well, thanks for reading the update, we`ll have more cool stuff to show off next time!

Comments

Mix@n Jul 30 2009, 1:40am says:

New effects very good

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freredarme Jul 30 2009, 2:34am says:

Nice effects here ;)

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Cirdain Jul 30 2009, 2:56am says:

fantastic

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Varsity Jul 30 2009, 3:37am says:

The character bump maps are way over the top (but the sand one looks great). Subtlety is how you do it: Moddb.com

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wilsonC Jul 30 2009, 4:00am replied:

They look a bit too strong because they're in modelviewer. In-game it looks pretty realistic, like in the first picture.

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Varsity Jul 30 2009, 4:53am replied:

I don't like the effect in-context either. /Maybe/ it would work if the bump map texture was dynamic, changing as the character animated, but it isn't. They end up looking instead like someone's poured glue into their washing machine. ;-)

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211476 Jul 30 2009, 9:28pm replied:

i agree, the bumpmaps on the player models need work

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Hendrix Jul 30 2009, 3:40am says:

cool effects lads, well done

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Tharapita Jul 30 2009, 8:16am says:

The ground looks good, the citizen's bumpmap doesn't really look that good however. And when you look at the ground texture being concrete, the bumpy look provided by the bumpmap doesn't make sense.

So eh.

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