Ok then...
Did you even READ the link I provided? You do know how FOLLOW HYPERLINKS, don't you? Perhaps I should have posted this snip instead:
What is the production polygon count per scene for Half-Life 2 maps?
Rather than a polygon count, we aim at a specific performance level on high-, medium-, and low-end machines. The map designer has tools (similar to Half-Life's r_speeds output, but greatly expanded) that will help pinpoint areas that need to be optimized.The only problem with that snip is they
don't give any hard polygon limits for their maps. That makes it a little hard to come up with a 'good base of comparison', don't you think? However, I can make an educated guess from
reading the fucking FAQ (which contains the snip I posted) that your original point about 'limits of the Half-Life' engine is
totally irrelevant.
You wrote:
m00t, that's my whole point, it DIDN'T keep the robust features of HL1 it kept the LIMITS of HL1. You just wait, when the game comes out, you try to make levels with 10,000 visible world polygons (something Quake3 (1999) can do quite easily). Without using the models or terrain mesh.
This is Quake 3, okay? AN OLD, DEATHMATCH CENTRIC GAME THAT TAKES PLACE MOSTLY IN TIGHT MAPS WITH CONFINED AREAS.
http://www.gamershell.com/hellzone_FPS_Quake_3.shtmlThis is Half-Life 2, okay? A NEW, SOLO-PLAY CENTRIC GAME THAT TAKES PLACE MOSTLY IN LARGE MAPS AND OPEN AREAS.
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You wrote:
It seems you're the one that's the fanboy here. I already mentioned shaders and all that other stuff is merely built on top of their existing code base. They never "rewrote the engine from scratch". That's the lie that they're perpetuating. They just piled more features onto the SAME ENGINE.
Oh, so you did a case-by-case comparison of the source code from both games, did you? I didn't know you worked for Valve, since the source code for HL1 is not available even though the source for HL2 is. Ohh... that's right, you're just another forum troll pulling shit out of his ass as usual.
One more link you probably won't read:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/400/400985p1.html?fromint=1Here's a nice, juicy quote:
It all started with the engine. Right after the original Half-Life shipped, a group of guys from the development team went off in to a secret area and began working on the new technology. The new engine, called Source, was built entirely from scratch specifically for Half-Life 2. But though it was built from scratch, it took its direction from the limitations of the first game's engine. "There was a bunch of stuff at the end of Half Life 1 that got cut, right? Things that people wanted to do. That's always the natural starting point. We had all these great ideas and things we had in mind that we weren't able to do with the last tech."Bonus! It talks about
limits too! Oh, I forgot - IGN is just made up of a bunch of liars, right? Well then, how about Gamespy:
http://www.gamespy.com/previews/may03/halflife2pc/The story of Half-Life 2 starts with its technology. While the original Half-Life was created with Quake technology licensed from id Software, Valve spent most of the last few years developing their own brand-new engine, dubbed "Source." In fact, most of what we got to see while at Valve were proof-of-concept tech demos finished around September 2002 to show off the capabilities of the Source engine; only later did the team start constructing levels for the actual game.Hell, even if they did re-use parts of the old engine, is that such a capital crime? PROGRAMMERS ARE LAZY. It's much quicker and easier to take something you already wrote and adapt it to a task than starting over from scratch (as many others have pointed out).
However, any *rational* person would tend to think that Valve is using a new engine for Half-Life 2 that surpasses the limits of the Half-Life 1. Is that an intelligent enough reply for you? Pardon the belligerance, but I'm tired of the ignorance. Jackass.
I'm anticipating the reply to be that I am a quote unquote "Valve fanboy" and I will be told to quote unquote "fuck off".
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