Raising the Bar is a mod based off of the idea of amalgamating the earliest concepts of Half-Life 2 into a coherent story. This mod is not a leak-fix, nor is it a concept art recreation gallery; it will be a full story with inspiration from the old material as well as our own ideas of how to make it all fit together.

Report RSS Wall-Tastic Update

Watching paint dry; it's what we do around here. You all asked, and we answered. Time for less paint, but more often!

Posted by on

Hey everyone,

So recently we've been getting a lot of feedback regarding the frequency of our updates. Many of you called for more frequent, smaller posts. So we're starting on that road as of now. As always, we can't guarantee that we'll be able to put out updates with any regularity, as our update history shows, but we will surely get stuff out when it's deemed ready.

Today's spotlight is some of the textures that Megamawman has been making for us.

More to come soon, so stay tuned!

-The RTB Dev Team

Post comment Comments
Dune_Jumper
Dune_Jumper - - 1,586 comments

Those look great!

Reply Good karma Bad karma+8 votes
SteveZombie
SteveZombie - - 3,730 comments

Who cares when we get updates when they look this good. Fantastic work on these.

Reply Good karma Bad karma+10 votes
freredarme
freredarme - - 4,357 comments

nice idea

Reply Good karma Bad karma+3 votes
TheRenegadist
TheRenegadist - - 2,087 comments

Crazy Bump at its finest!

Reply Good karma Bad karma+1 vote
Guest
Guest - - 689,292 comments

I don't think this was crazybump

Reply Good karma Bad karma+3 votes
Saghen
Saghen - - 154 comments

I actually dislike crazybump. I sculpted all of these using NDo and the made the main texture with Photoshop and DDo. Everything you see was made from scratch.

Reply Good karma Bad karma+5 votes
Chocolate-Helicopter
Chocolate-Helicopter - - 227 comments

i came

Reply Good karma Bad karma+2 votes
Saghen
Saghen - - 154 comments

I <3 u. Thanks m8.

Reply Good karma Bad karma+2 votes
cryos-lithos
cryos-lithos - - 44 comments

Amazing job %)

Reply Good karma Bad karma+2 votes
tacobobthelemonman
tacobobthelemonman - - 34 comments

they Look great, but not for raising the bar (gets hit with -votes, even though he's just sharing his opinion) In my honest opinion, everything outside the inside of combine buildings should be in shades of yellow brown due to the pollution of the combine Air Replacement.

Just my opinion though...

Reply Good karma Bad karma+2 votes
AmbientNoise Author
AmbientNoise - - 225 comments

We're eventually going to have many more textures done for the mod; many of them will have that worn down look to them. One could also wonder how the air would react with non-organic objects indeed, although there would likely be a few types of materials that could withstand that for some time (not saying these would be that kind of material).

Reply Good karma+3 votes
Guest
Guest - - 689,292 comments

Dat detail. can you tell me resolutions for the textures?

Reply Good karma Bad karma+1 vote
Saghen
Saghen - - 154 comments

All textures are 2048x2048 or 2k for short.

Reply Good karma Bad karma+1 vote
FirestormDangerDash
FirestormDangerDash - - 19 comments

I just did some late late night interneting. Well listening to a "new" genre of music I found, called retro wave. Finding and reading super into Raising the Bar book sorta causing some sort of awe and wonder filled euphoria. And then I found this possible, future mod.

I'm excited to see this come to forewishen.

Also terrified.

That's enough internet, Gordon. GET AWAY FROM THE- shutting down... Attempting shutdown. It's not! It's not shutting down!

Reply Good karma Bad karma+1 vote
Saghen
Saghen - - 154 comments

Well, we hope you like the result! :D

Reply Good karma Bad karma+1 vote
AmbientNoise Author
AmbientNoise - - 225 comments

Retrowave is awesome. Check out NewRetroWave on YouTube, they have some great stuff.

Reply Good karma+1 vote
AmbientNoise Author
AmbientNoise - - 225 comments

Derp, ignore this.

Reply Good karma+1 vote
TheUnbeholden
TheUnbeholden - - 3,603 comments

Nice balls. I mean textures.

Reply Good karma Bad karma+6 votes
Post a comment

Your comment will be anonymous unless you join the community. Or sign in with your social account: