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There is a new unoffical mod made by Neotokyo to add Bloom/HDR effect to Half-Life2.

Here is a screenshot.

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More screenshots & download link can be found here:
http://phase0.blogspot.com/2005/02/hdrb ... life2.html

nice broken link...

Freakaloin wrote:nice broken link...

Worked for me.

Looks pretty good. :icon14:

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meh, slapping light blooms on everything doesn't always make it look better. It looked great in Thief 3, but that doesn't mean that it fits HL2.

does it kill frames like in far cry?

Freakaloin wrote:does it kill frames like in far cry?

Most of them are saying there's very little difference in frame rate. Just a bit longer load time.

HDR and light blooms are two different things. HL2 already has light blooming (the sunset just before Black Mesa East for example). HDR uses floating point values for RGB colour instead of usual 0-255 integer values. This means gradations of colour are represented accurately and not banded due to rounding of colour values to the nearest integer. While this is excellent, and makes clear blue skies look good, it has a huge FPS hit, and even with SLI 6800s you can't have HDR and AA without killing the game.

FYI.

Looks nice.

Valve is going to release their own HDR test map soon available for download. That dosen't look like HDR, it's all bloom.

seremtan wrote:HDR and light blooms are two different things. HL2 already has light blooming (the sunset just before Black Mesa East for example). HDR uses floating point values for RGB colour instead of usual 0-255 integer values. This means gradations of colour are represented accurately and not banded due to rounding of colour values to the nearest integer. While this is excellent, and makes clear blue skies look good, it has a huge FPS hit, and even with SLI 6800s you can't have HDR and AA without killing the game.

FYI.

I don't remember the sunset before the Black Mesa East... but this just looks like a vertex/pixel shader that simulates the bloom effect.

You can turn it on via mat_bloom (regular HL2)... I couldn't tell if there was any noticeable difference though. Maybe my 9800 Pro dosen't support it.

it looks alright, but the shots with the scientist being really shiny just doesn't look realistic and more of an annoying, i'm-really-tired effect to it.

the last one here looks great with the subtlety of it.

this effect seems to be the new lensflare pendant. i've seen a certain overuse recently.

not that it's a bad effect - but at some point it does just not look more realistic if it's turned on.

looks like an "im drunk and seeing light halos" effect... kind of disorienting and ugly IMO.

Doesn't look good at all IMO

forget that shit, look at how HL2 looks in the Unreal4 engine

[lvlshot]https://i.imgur.com/gPmRMwT.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]https://i.imgur.com/rpUmoXN.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]https://i.imgur.com/AHYChcj.jpg[/lvlshot]

i'd play it - in the unlikely event of it actually releasing as a complete game given the lead time for Black Mesa

Testoclesius wrote:jesus christ that looks so crap

fuck off nerd

Thats impressive

Did they get this working? I see some videos and pictures about the internet but not much more.

seremtan wrote:forget that shit, look at how HL2 looks in the Unreal4 engine

Looks like that's been built from scratch, so other than the subject matter, you can't really say it's Half-Life 2.

Half-Theseus

Eraser wrote:

seremtan wrote:forget that shit, look at how HL2 looks in the Unreal4 engine

Looks like that's been built from scratch, so other than the subject matter, you can't really say it's Half-Life 2.

you know what i mean

pedantic fuck

seremtan wrote:[lvlshot]https://i.imgur.com/rpUmoXN.jpg[/lvlshot]

the brickwork texture on the columns framing the shot? looks like printed wallpaper the way it flows from one wall to the next.

c'mon guys, if a job's worth doing