A compilation of clips throughout Half-Life 2 and it's episodes showing what the NPCs looks like outside the cameras point of view. #halflife2 #sourceengine #halflife
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@croman2000Ай бұрын
Valve understood that prerendered scenes for digital displays would not scale with bigger resolutions so they went out of their ways to make a realtime stream with models
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
@@croman2000 yea, and it's easier
@awii.neocitiesАй бұрын
also doesn’t take as much storage
@DogsRNiceАй бұрын
Except the screens are rendered at a low resolution anyway lol
@carsvengaming5558Ай бұрын
And they knew there mistake with the half life 1 HUD
@Concon12316Ай бұрын
plus, if there were any last minute changes to any of the models, they wouldn't have to re-render the whole thing
@SneedFeedAndSeedАй бұрын
4:06 I like how Barney's cement block camera shakes
@itdobelikedattho8112Ай бұрын
It's a camera
@SlimbTheSlime20 күн бұрын
wiggle wiggle
@DonSanchez5 күн бұрын
Shake it baby
@SimaneerrАй бұрын
0:45 he sensed that someone is watching him
@Grayson-tk5hnАй бұрын
THATS TERRIFYING
@HarryNansenАй бұрын
@@Grayson-tk5hn It really is
@jamesbryan287Ай бұрын
It's a default NPC behavior I'm pretty sure
@sharifahlisa5329Ай бұрын
@@jamesbryan287 yea it is I tested it in gmod
@apurpledragonАй бұрын
Ah so that's why Breen in randomly there when Alyx watches the screen. It's also really neat how Alyx's dad does a typing motion you don't get to see sense his hands are never really visible.
@CocoTheMiiАй бұрын
3:16 the idea that mossman is actually just talking to a still image of breen is very funny
@BobTheMartinАй бұрын
3:20 I like how they just put a PNG of breen in that scene
@StanislawNiemyjskiАй бұрын
ehrm... actually it's a .vtf 🤓☝️
@scoutdy6547Ай бұрын
Probably so the map makers knew how to adjust mossman in the scene That or (honestly more likely) the original idea would be that Alex would switch through the cameras at different angles and was there just as a place holder and decided to just stick it to one camera angle and didn't bother delete the photo.
@mrman2476Ай бұрын
He was only on speaker mode or whatever it's called.
@apchistuzАй бұрын
A png is a lossles picture A vtf is either uses lossy DXT1/DXT5 or other uncompressed images like RGBA8888/RBGA8888
@agentwolf6942022 күн бұрын
Dr Breen is now your dating sim...
@Sum1Uknow2019Ай бұрын
Crazy how much animation gets lost when it goes through the screen 4:43 .
@AxodusАй бұрын
It's the filter they used, I think it fit the feeling they were going for so I guess the lost animations is worth it?
@Sum1Uknow2019Ай бұрын
@@Axodus oh yeah it doesn't really matter I just thought it was cool
@45hr52Ай бұрын
Better to have excessive amounts of Animation than too little of it
@CocoTheMiiАй бұрын
@@AxodusThe strange thing is that Eli is fully animated despite being almost completely hidden behind Kleiner.
@MaxLebled23 күн бұрын
It's not "wasted" animation in the sense that 99% of HL2 scenes are using a library of gestures and poses that they can composite on top of any human character. It probably only took a couple minutes to add existing gestures to Kleiner there
@MyScorpion42Ай бұрын
Interestingly, when you talk to Alyx in the rebel outpost just before Highway 17, the monitor is actually an animated texture and not a real time camera
@gillboy5762Ай бұрын
I think this is probably a remnant of how they did it in the beta before they came up with the real time streaming. Because the feed visually cuts out constantly it still looks pretty fine.
@racer927Ай бұрын
Though Alyx is still in the map in a hidden room. I wonder if that's to get it so that she speaks her lines and then they're played at the monitor with the radio filter.
@gillboy5762Ай бұрын
@@racer927 Voices in the source engine MUST come from somewhere. In Portal 1 GLaDoS is a red storage cube in a room out of bounds, in Half-Life 2 they tended to use the actual models for the voices. Even in the beta this was something that had to occur.
@thisnameisbad3609Ай бұрын
@@gillboy5762i don't know much about source but i have done a few goldsrc maps. isn't there an entity make specifically to play sounds?
@Прощай46Ай бұрын
Нет, я с помощью ноклипа летал, там была камера реального времени.
@alfonzo_Ай бұрын
2:41 my dad going out to buy milk when I was 6
@mr.cheeseisus220Ай бұрын
My milk going out to buy dad when I was 16
@RedrD-oh6wuАй бұрын
My dad going out to milk me when i was 116
@yes_and_so_whatАй бұрын
My dad going out to by milk when I was 1116
@MohIsmail-mk1fdАй бұрын
My going dad out to milk buy me 69-uhh- i mean 61
@mr.cheeseisus220Ай бұрын
@@RedrD-oh6wu don't you think that sound kinda...ya know?
@Marduk40125 күн бұрын
they cut Breen in half but they included Dr. Kleiner's FULL lab for some reason.
@CalebEdwards-ut7ju17 күн бұрын
bc they alr had kleiners lab bc its needed in other chapters but no breen office
@Marduk40117 күн бұрын
@@CalebEdwards-ut7ju it's not needed it's a different map when you go there.
@CalebEdwards-ut7ju17 күн бұрын
@@Marduk401 wait really? Damn they really hate breen
@Foebane7213 күн бұрын
@@Marduk401 They copied and pasted Kleiner's lab, in full or in part, I don't know.
@infamoushacker4chan883Ай бұрын
Discovered this while playing with Half-Life in Gmod. Immediately amused myself by spawning in various props where Breen stands and watching them render in real time on the viewscreen.
@FunnySpaceMan.Ай бұрын
🤝
@Mal0Imperzia25 күн бұрын
Id always kill, replace, or retexture breen like some dumb ARG. One time I replaced him with a ragdoll of him staring at the screen with a silent, wide eyed smile.
@ιλι8 күн бұрын
with wire mod you can make these screens yourself, with the RT screen and RT camera tool
@NTSA-ox6fgАй бұрын
4:39 ☝ 🤓
@alien31itaАй бұрын
"Alax, Gorgon u gotta go in the cetadail and turn off the xbox live servers"
@lsl-wo3rhАй бұрын
Made me chuckle, lmao
@usedtissue2328Ай бұрын
in the vr mod, you can see depth in these screens. it looks weird and doesnt match the rest of your vision
@awsomebot1Ай бұрын
To clarify for others, I don't think you mean depth of Breen vs his background. Rather how his video feed is hovering in front of the actual screen. A ton of games have this problem, especially with decals. On flatscreen, you don't notice it. But with VR's depth perception it's very obvious (I remember seeing it with Alien Isolation's blood decals for example)
@GoodSirEvilАй бұрын
@@awsomebot1 however this is an intended feature in this case. The monitor. The combine use doesn't have screens. You can see the cool layering effect in the non vr game as well actually. It's just a very cool hologram effect.
@DeepWeeb28 күн бұрын
@@awsomebot1 Isn't the feeling be more like how the portals in (hum) Portal look? Like, if you tilt your head you start to see what's supposed to be behind it, something that's just not a thing on a screen of any kind. Like a non-Euclidean optical illusion: the wolrd of the TV is bigger inside than the TV's screen
@KirikkSiSq13 күн бұрын
@@DeepWeeb maybe more like World Portals from Portal 2?
@PalendromeАй бұрын
*Lord of the Rings Trilogy* : "We will intensely detail this entire city, even the things the viewers will never see on screen." *Half-Life 2* : "We are not going to animate a single limb that doesn't appear on screen."
@TheProfessionalRanterАй бұрын
Ive messed with those breen screens so many times 💀
@Woogoo336Ай бұрын
Bro is well optimized
@elektra81516Ай бұрын
Great video! But you missed out one very small screen which shows Gman on a boat in the ocean with some crows. It appears in Anticitizen One just after DOG kills the combine with the APC in a destroyed building on a TV, the same TV that emits the creepy radio.mp3 sound
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
yea i forgot about that one, i made a community post showing it tho
@boifo756515 күн бұрын
4:47 eli's movements are still being played even though hes not on the screen! It's cool seeing how immersive they make the cutscenes!
@KrebsonMACROwaveАй бұрын
5:19 In entropy zero 2, Their was a door there.. Turns out it supposed to be a Hallway with no door.
@thisisnotfunny69Ай бұрын
entropy zero 2 is not canon,
@OkachaWasTakenАй бұрын
@@thisisnotfunny69 Who do they think they are? Hunt Down The Freeman? 😂
@thisisnotfunny69Ай бұрын
@@OkachaWasTaken did i say hunt down the freeman was canon?
@wedoalittletrolling723Ай бұрын
@@thisisnotfunny69 mods are not cannon, period
@SniperOnSundayАй бұрын
Even so, they did a very good job of recreating it.
@mugyeahАй бұрын
my knowledger.. ITS THINKING!! 💭
@kuro.mp3126Ай бұрын
You missed the Gman TV secret in Anti-Citizen One
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
oh yea, ill make a community post or something
@kuro.mp3126Ай бұрын
@@thinklife_and also, the alyx tv at the end of "we don't go to ravenholn"
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
the alyx tv is actually just a texture @@kuro.mp3126
@kuro.mp3126Ай бұрын
@@thinklife_ I uh, thought that. And then I noclipped into the floor, and I saw alyx
@ApernosOfficalАй бұрын
@@kuro.mp3126 thats because the NPC needs to be loaded into the map to be able to have their voicelines
@TylerLFGMАй бұрын
I've always wanted to see these... thank you!!
@RedMenace0Ай бұрын
I know every game has constantly tried to capture the cinematic, seamless feel of half life 2 since it came out, but not a single other game has really captured my heart, no other game has the perfect sci fi action campyness, no other game has genuinely convincing acting, good and funny lines, and a world i genuinely can see past the borders of. Someone needs to make another game that feels like half life. someone give me more protagonists to actually give a fuck about, and moment to moment gameplay thats interesting and constantly changes it up
@deepikapoddar283114 күн бұрын
Entropy 2
@Foebane7213 күн бұрын
I never gave a f about Alyx, I couldn't stand her, especially the way she kept following me and backchatting me. And she was useless at shooting monsters.
@LongNeckedBirdАй бұрын
5:28 one of those gotta be 3650
@tapehead-jeffАй бұрын
Sssst, I'm still currently playing Entropy 2, was already hoping this part would be redone in the game seems like it will!
@tapehead-jeffАй бұрын
Funny to see these video's being remade after two decades, as a kid playing this game back in the days (I was 11 back then) KZfaq was full with the same kind of (lowtech 240P Fraps) videos explaining the same stuff, even I myself made one of those videos back then. It was a real game changer once I found out how to use the console commands and look at these places myself! Edit: People like you really keep this game alive, thanks for that!
@railworksamericaАй бұрын
The KZfaq auto captions are doing a fine job today
@JuanGamer0202Ай бұрын
Idk if its the way they talk, but for some reason the automatic captions did fine, that is weird it never works
@someperson4536Ай бұрын
I thought you were being satire lol
@MathaikurvaEntertaimentsCoАй бұрын
whenever i see Dr. Mosman"s capture, i always think about that Entropy zero 2 scene, where they go after Mosman, and it just maches perfectly with the one in episode 1
@FiYogurtАй бұрын
Same
@i_am_theguy12Ай бұрын
i saw this before a bunch of other people saw it (about ~280 views), thats neat, doesnt happen very often also good video i am like
@SonOfTheChinChinАй бұрын
i cant believe other game engines still dont have texture capturing and streaming like source
@SkedgyEdgyАй бұрын
-- they literally do what
@SkedgyEdgyАй бұрын
-- even in the ps1 era games did this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7GGdbp9nayXiHk.htmlsi=LXO6eZdFRooYXgU-&t=185
@MegariskyYTАй бұрын
Basically every 3D engine in use today has virtual texture support
@halfsineАй бұрын
almost every modern engine has that feature, its archaic engines from decades ago that don't have features like that. most fps games NEED this technology to prevent viewmodels from clipping into walls.
@theblah12Ай бұрын
Name an engine that doesn’t?
@therealseagullkingАй бұрын
finding these in gmod was cool.
@DogsRNiceАй бұрын
One of the versus saxton hale maps in tf2 has one of these
@timeryarАй бұрын
fnaf
@LongPeterАй бұрын
Flashing the screen-static cards in front of the camera is hilarious. One of those, “This stupid idea will never work, but it’s easy, so I might as well try it…” moments for sure.
@rolling_get10 күн бұрын
Welp...cannot unsee torso Breen/Kleiner/Eli. Maybe I didn't need to see how this hot dog was made. Great vid tho, very interesting!
@Foebane7213 күн бұрын
This sort of tech has existed for a long time in 3D game engines. id Tech 4 had such a "virtual camera" ability as well, it was most likely an offshoot of the "mirror" technology they used in Quake 3 Arena. GoldSrc (Half-Life) also had a virtual camera, and I've seen it in Build (Duke Nukem 3D) too.
@cryptomonique11 күн бұрын
alyx does the creepiest look after teleporting at 2:27
@dogman1524 күн бұрын
One other one you missed was the TV showing Dr. Magnusson, that then gets interrupted by a Combine Advisor. And there's the TV showing footage of the Borealis after Mossman's message is played.
@ittixen7 күн бұрын
The most insane part for me was that the static was a model physically placed in front of the camera, rather than a texture applied to the screen. Laziest hack in history.
@ShinomiyaK18 күн бұрын
"Well kum" - The Best sentence in a op
@H2Oredfirefox22 күн бұрын
It is kind of funny seeing the same side by side from the cameras point of view as well it's kind of amusing🤔🤔🤔🤔
@Yulenka-26 күн бұрын
Thank you for such an undue upload! HL2 is a masterpiece
@zstewart22 күн бұрын
Its amusing that the on-screen static during the teleport scene is just a box with a static texture that they put in front of the virtual camera.
@liguelxi1610Ай бұрын
I have discovered some of them by myself, when trying noclip out. Thats really interesting
@bulletbeatboxer18 күн бұрын
One of the most well done in game screens in any game... such a brilliant idea to just add another camera, be able to add filter effects to the screens. I really didn't seen many other games do it well in that era of games.
@Foebane7213 күн бұрын
Doom 3 had cameras, too. You could even see yourself from behind in one of them, which was cool!
@Theunion24Ай бұрын
I like how Lamar is just swimming in the air
@Inventure751Ай бұрын
I always thought it was creepy when the G-man was in Breen's "studio" in one instance, and they modeled his torso too short. It appears when a vortigaunt is powering a TV in Route Kanal
@MBS_777Ай бұрын
0:35 Забавный факт, Брина можно грохнуть. Оказавшись тут, навестись на Брина и написать команду на поджог. Брин погорит, затем исчезнет и вроде бы даже его речь пропадет 🎉
@coondogthemanАй бұрын
You forgot the small security screens in dr kliner's lab which are generated by a large panel behind the wall next to the lab.
@HelenaFelona2008Ай бұрын
The magic of render target cameras
@ad7799Ай бұрын
5:38 I don´t remember seeing Lamard...
@TheSizzleDash22 күн бұрын
actual live streaming, cool
@zussman_Ай бұрын
5:40 what is lamar doing there
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
he's at the end of kleiners speech
@lenadams854Ай бұрын
@@thinklife_ she
@45hr52Ай бұрын
Swimming in the air
@itdobelikedattho8112Ай бұрын
@@thinklife_did you just misgender her?
@H2Oredfirefox22 күн бұрын
It always seems that they sometimes added animation to the physical character even though most of the time you don't get to see that on monitors🤔🤔🤔😀😀😀
@emmanueldelangel3014Ай бұрын
In the part where Doctor Mossman transmits her message to Gordon and Alyx, it looks good in Entrophy Zero
@DonSanchez5 күн бұрын
Wait, these weren't pre-recorded videos? Noice.
@FunnySpaceMan.Ай бұрын
Due to Gmod noclipping, I am aware of all of these LMAO.
@MatthewBesterАй бұрын
I found Breen years ago, back in the day but I don't remember Kleiner. Awesome.
@elitesoldier3650Ай бұрын
Professionally made! Deserves a like and subscribe.
@sagey08Ай бұрын
yo dude, look at the comment above you
@PloVv-hu4qtАй бұрын
@@sagey08 What comment?
@mrman2476Ай бұрын
@@sagey08 "If you spawn something in front of breen does it effect the breencast?" That's the comment above him. What's so interesting about it?
@sagey08Ай бұрын
at the time of writing my comment the commenter above him is a furry
@mrman2476Ай бұрын
@@sagey08 Oh bit thaat's funny!! You get a funny badge. ⨶
@GimmilFactory13 күн бұрын
Duct tape and wire ties.
@sonicobolt28 күн бұрын
I love valve, god bless you Gaben, i hope you're healthy and your beard is as long as Santa's.
@alioeygamer1239Ай бұрын
i love barney when he said in coming !!
@MichaelOfRohan12 күн бұрын
Watch it just turn out to be a portal with a different graphic lol
@WinterGamesYTАй бұрын
3:30 my parents having an argument be like
@labradoodle1886Ай бұрын
Breen is a gorilla tag player confirmed
@GordonFreeman-l3pАй бұрын
I Like That Breen Is Cut In Half
@butwhytho65229 күн бұрын
SO if you were going to properly provide a raytraced version, you'd have to flesh out the virtual camera environments to correctly portray light emissions and occlusions in the off-screen environments. Something the existing raytracers miss.
@kiroman25829 күн бұрын
Разговаривает со стенкой😂 и летающие туловища с головой гениально
@yazidefirenzeАй бұрын
I can't believe Breen is a youtuber!
@Wolfy-022 күн бұрын
There something spooky and depressing about this music, I remember we hear it when enter in the citadel core It really makes me feel uncomfortable, tell me if you feel the same, I'm curious
@gvidobarscausks9272Ай бұрын
awesome video
@PhattyBolger16 күн бұрын
I don't understand why they put static behind the character models.
@1ndleun_what21 күн бұрын
you can even kill dr breen
@SimonG258Ай бұрын
5:28 the 2 elites both die here, that makes entropy zero 2 non canon
@sahaquiel4640Ай бұрын
Fucking how
@naitor2594Ай бұрын
you're not meant to see them dying though
@aggerdanny28 күн бұрын
Breen didn’t wear his legs
@MiljanBojovic16 күн бұрын
0:45 Dafuq are you looking at?
@SonicTheHedgehogModernАй бұрын
and! I missed the borealis, there is a part at the end of ep2 where the borealis appears
@XibTi_4 күн бұрын
All this time they were never pre-recorded videos but in real time?
@jungkrist24 күн бұрын
Well done 👌
@epic_expunged21 күн бұрын
i guess hl2 wasnt advanced enough to play videos inside of the game so it becomes easier
@SNOUPS4Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@railworksamericaАй бұрын
good video thank you
@kevinmaasik8558Ай бұрын
nice video👍🏻👌
@elisa3257Ай бұрын
We knew this
@suma4m14 күн бұрын
Is it possible for the monitors to show in-game objects that player can move, Gordon's model controlled by player, or unscripted NPCs?
@Nightprideenclave_studioАй бұрын
You can find him in gmod
@goofer-content28 күн бұрын
ok why they actually make breen say the things tho
@SlimbTheSlime20 күн бұрын
What about Alyx talking to Leon?
@NestyCZSK27 күн бұрын
can you record how the train works? pls?
@lenadams854Ай бұрын
5:33 ministridet
@sh_ne_Ай бұрын
L video he stole my cs knife :(
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
NOO~O~O !O@~@#2131234 walmart
@nguyenhuyhoang101029 күн бұрын
Entropy: Zero 1 & 2 ?
Ай бұрын
damn nice !!
@Barkevergulsen1713Ай бұрын
If you spawn something in front of breen does it effect the breencast?
@thinklife_Ай бұрын
yea
@ApernosOfficalАй бұрын
i did that in gmod once, and put the red teletubby over breen lmao
@heythatsprettygood6492Ай бұрын
lit
@chikito5161Ай бұрын
5:10 why not show from Entropy : Zero
@someperson4536Ай бұрын
you aren't even meant to see it
@MetalboiSage-vi3ew21 күн бұрын
Damn
@Nolevun_ShortsАй бұрын
Мне больше с Кляйнером понравилось
@JoeAverage3325Ай бұрын
I was gonna make a video about this but i thought nah everyone knows about this and it wouldn't get any views