SoW1 vs. HL2 - Graphic quality

detail textures look nice sometimes, a lot of the time they're done really badly and look horrible. imo.

i also think the pics are slightly biased (showing not even 4 complete hl2 tiles, compared to loads of hl1 ones D: )

HL2 materials actually do have detail texture features. But there's already normal + spec maps for a lot of the textures, not to mention cubemaps. It's just a waste of texture memory to have them, since most players won't be staring a few inches down at the ground or at a wall.

bullshit

gtfo

That is one biased weak ass comparison you got going on there.

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That is one biased weak ass comparison you got going on there.

agreed

Detail textures were superceded years ago by bump/normal/specular maps. Get with the times, grandpa; details make stuff look like papier mache.

gtfo~

hey guys im GTFOing

Like said before. You'd have to basicly do one detail texture for each texture. Which would take quite some space and memory.

owned

No texture in any game looks ultra-spiffy that close, nor should it be expected to in anything for the next generation or two of graphics - and even then it's a waste of time and resources to bother with that small a scale. How much time are people even going to spend that close?

I can spot the number of repeating tiles at that range in your detail texture shots. If I can see that from poking my face at the ground at that range, just think how blatantly obvious that'll be over an entire scene. Your time is better spent on other features.

also the detail textures look absolutly horrible

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That is one biased weak ass comparison you got going on there.

So hl1 with detail textures runs faster than HL2 with cube/bump etc.

great news!

oh why the player model is darker than the rest, looks really weird. The tiles are really bright and the model pretty dark. Does it look like that in distance ?

Details textures, ugly ? not to my opinion

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You can re use 1 single 512 or 256 detail texture a dozen times. Thats how Unreal is working for years, you dont notice its always the same tex yet it makes stuff look way better near by, normal mapping doesnt help with that at all, and I do look to walls from nearby

UT1 floortiles = http://www.planetunreal.com/phalanx/Hou ... ot0007.jpg

More than just a detail tex tho in that pic

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You can re use 1 single 512 or 256 detail texture a dozen times

that often results in it looking horrible though? in your re use of detail textures, you pair them with textures that don't match, and it just ends up looking odd