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Sexual healing, Phil.

You just don't get it, do you? HL2 doesn't need texture lighting because a) the lightmaps are of a much higher quality and b) the mapper is given a lot more control over said lights.

Glad to hear it; setting up texture lights is a laborous process I could do without.

Now that's an award.

apathy is no achievement. Details and other coming very soon! screenshots too. Well, of course it's no achievement: that's precisely the point of apathy.

I can say "apathy"; summing up my feelings for this map.

Yeah, almost forgot about Mafia. That game had the most fantastic action/thriller music piece. If only I could find somewhere to get it... Mafia! ftp://ftp.take2.de/extras/MainTheme.mp3 Good man! EDIT: This is great, but the best Mafia tune is the dramatic score that comes on whenever some action takes place. Get me that, and I'll kiss ya fucking dalmations, as John McClane would say.

It's cool that more mags are starting to do this. Can only be good for the mod scene.

Will we be able to use Hammer and other in-house editors that handle the conversations etc. to create our own Bloodlines stuff?

So, Bloodlines is polished off but waiting for those Valve bastards to get their act together, and Troika are making lots of saucy techdemos with a particularly tasty new engine. I like the sound of this!

You expect hell to be dark?

Don't sign away your soul, Mr Texture Artist.

Lovely little images though, stuff like Dog picking up a car, what looks like an upgraded Manipulator unleashing blue death, just general love. One screen also shows Gordon with 200 armour.

Good stuff!

Obviously some of them are comedy shots, not from the PCG DVD

Oh come on, Vin Diesel can't act to save his life. His character was originally going to survive in Saving Private Ryan, but after Spielberg saw him lying them in the soaking rain, pathetically delivering his lines, he let the sniper finish him off. True story.

No idea, but here's 45 new pics to satiate your lust: http://www.hl2world.com/bbs/album_cat.php?cat_id=6. Screens taken from the PC Gamer UK DVD.

http://www.hl2world.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=9710&start=135 Oh baby, just look at those new screens. Polished.

90% actually. http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=31475&subsectionid=1609

96% is bang-on, it's what HL1 got in PC Gamer UK all those years ago and it's a kind of prophecy being fufilled. I honestly wouldn't expect any game, no matter how awesome, to get higher than 96-97%. Nothing is perfect.

Nice texture, but at 614x550 I have to ask, are you fucking bonkers?

So does Source still cut every 240 units, or is that simply a prequisite of BSP-based games?

I wouldn't care about the brand, but for an Athlon 64bit I'd be safe and go for a 400W PSU at least. Should run fine then.

Cubemaps aren't dynamic, so no, cheap water won't reflect models. Even the fancy water has to be told to reflect models, for performance reasons I presume.

If it's only for PC gaming and not for a Home Theatre system, then save some cash and plump for the delightful 640s.