End of the year update news

Hello guys! So another year has passed, I'd like to show that I'm still working on the mod and all goes well as planned. Unfortunately, there's been less progress than the last year but I still have something to show, and it's slowly but surely going strong.

Suit model was done by Tnnv, posing for the picture done by NextDay. Alice model by Vincent-page, currently in progress of being animated by NextDay.

Some pictures below can recap what's been posted throughout the year since last article, some new:

Red Dweller model by Tnnv, which finally replaces red vortigaunt to further avoid any confusions with Half-Life universe (since it's supposed to be total conversion mod anyway):

Graphical improvements: implemented bump-mapping, new water shader, specular lighting (thanks to ncuxonaT and Lev for help with shaders):

Implemented interior mapping. I've wrote an article about it earlier, read it here if you want to know more about the implementation process. Also first map of chapter 4:

Yes, 99% of all windows, even in far background, look 3D because of interior mapping.

Next thing: parallax-corrected cubemaps, just like in Source 2. You make a brush entity cubemap_box on the map, representing room boundaries, or your desired boundaries which fit the best, and here we go. Screenshots in order: test map with all-reflective surfaces, in-game use, view in JackHammer.

Npcs (and player too) make dust particles when running on dirty surfaces:

New hands for viewmodels to account new suit - by Tnnv:

Soldiers can now run and shoot at the same time. There and no gaitsequences used. Only turning the spine controller and measuring shooting angle.

The controllable drone now has a screen:

Real cables by Bacontsu:

Girl civilian variations based on Condition Zero models:

Dynamic weather. Rain starts to fall, clouds appear, drips on the screens increases, fog increases...rain ends, all that goes away smoothly:

Apache can shoot down rockets just like in HL 2 (utilized same code)

Car wheels can become dirty. The effect changes fast only for testing purposes, in game it will slowly accumulate over time. Implemented by blending two textures between each-other in the shader.

Last thing for now, the map I'm working on at the moment:

Thank you for sticking around! P.S. subscribe to me on LambdaGen to see some sneak-peeks and some other random stuff I post if you'd like.

- Aynekko