Half-Life 2's In-Game Screens

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Half-Life 2's In-Game Screens

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A compilation of clips throughout Half-Life 2 and it's episodes showing what the NPCs looks like outside the cameras point of view.
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@croman2000 Ай 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.neocities Ай бұрын

also doesn’t take as much storage

@DogsRNice Ай бұрын

Except the screens are rendered at a low resolution anyway lol

@carsvengaming5558 Ай бұрын

And they knew there mistake with the half life 1 HUD

@Concon12316 Ай бұрын

plus, if there were any last minute changes to any of the models, they wouldn't have to re-render the whole thing

@SneedFeedAndSeed Ай бұрын

4:06 I like how Barney's cement block camera shakes

@itdobelikedattho8112 Ай бұрын

It's a camera

@SlimbTheSlime 20 күн бұрын

wiggle wiggle

@DonSanchez 5 күн бұрын

Shake it baby

@Simaneerr Ай бұрын

0:45 he sensed that someone is watching him

@Grayson-tk5hn Ай бұрын

THATS TERRIFYING

@HarryNansen Ай бұрын

@@Grayson-tk5hn It really is

@jamesbryan287 Ай бұрын

It's a default NPC behavior I'm pretty sure

@sharifahlisa5329 Ай бұрын

@@jamesbryan287 yea it is I tested it in gmod

@apurpledragon Ай 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.

@CocoTheMii Ай бұрын

3:16 the idea that mossman is actually just talking to a still image of breen is very funny

@BobTheMartin Ай бұрын

3:20 I like how they just put a PNG of breen in that scene

@StanislawNiemyjski Ай бұрын

ehrm... actually it's a .vtf 🤓☝️

@scoutdy6547 Ай 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.

@mrman2476 Ай бұрын

He was only on speaker mode or whatever it's called.

@apchistuz Ай бұрын

A png is a lossles picture A vtf is either uses lossy DXT1/DXT5 or other uncompressed images like RGBA8888/RBGA8888

@agentwolf69420 22 күн бұрын

Dr Breen is now your dating sim...

@Sum1Uknow2019 Ай бұрын

Crazy how much animation gets lost when it goes through the screen 4:43 .

@Axodus Ай 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?

@Sum1Uknow2019 Ай бұрын

@@Axodus oh yeah it doesn't really matter I just thought it was cool

@45hr52 Ай бұрын

Better to have excessive amounts of Animation than too little of it

@CocoTheMii Ай бұрын

@@AxodusThe strange thing is that Eli is fully animated despite being almost completely hidden behind Kleiner.

@MaxLebled 23 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

@MyScorpion42 Ай 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

@gillboy5762 Ай 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.

@racer927 Ай 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.

@gillboy5762 Ай 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.

@thisnameisbad3609 Ай 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?

@Прощай46 Ай 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.cheeseisus220 Ай бұрын

My milk going out to buy dad when I was 16

@RedrD-oh6wu Ай бұрын

My dad going out to milk me when i was 116

@yes_and_so_what Ай бұрын

My dad going out to by milk when I was 1116

@MohIsmail-mk1fd Ай бұрын

My going dad out to milk buy me 69-uhh- i mean 61

@mr.cheeseisus220 Ай бұрын

@@RedrD-oh6wu don't you think that sound kinda...ya know?

@Marduk401 25 күн бұрын

they cut Breen in half but they included Dr. Kleiner's FULL lab for some reason.

@CalebEdwards-ut7ju 17 күн бұрын

bc they alr had kleiners lab bc its needed in other chapters but no breen office

@Marduk401 17 күн бұрын

@@CalebEdwards-ut7ju it's not needed it's a different map when you go there.

@CalebEdwards-ut7ju 17 күн бұрын

@@Marduk401 wait really? Damn they really hate breen

@Foebane72 13 күн бұрын

@@Marduk401 They copied and pasted Kleiner's lab, in full or in part, I don't know.

@infamoushacker4chan883 Ай 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

🤝

@Mal0Imperzia 25 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.

@ιλι 8 күн бұрын

with wire mod you can make these screens yourself, with the RT screen and RT camera tool

@NTSA-ox6fg Ай бұрын

4:39 ☝ 🤓

@alien31ita Ай бұрын

"Alax, Gorgon u gotta go in the cetadail and turn off the xbox live servers"

@lsl-wo3rh Ай бұрын

Made me chuckle, lmao

@usedtissue2328 Ай бұрын

in the vr mod, you can see depth in these screens. it looks weird and doesnt match the rest of your vision

@awsomebot1 Ай 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)

@GoodSirEvil Ай 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.

@DeepWeeb 28 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

@KirikkSiSq 13 күн бұрын

@@DeepWeeb maybe more like World Portals from Portal 2?

@Palendrome Ай 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."

@TheProfessionalRanter Ай бұрын

Ive messed with those breen screens so many times 💀

@Woogoo336 Ай бұрын

Bro is well optimized

@elektra81516 Ай 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

@boifo7565 15 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!

@KrebsonMACROwave Ай бұрын

5:19 In entropy zero 2, Their was a door there.. Turns out it supposed to be a Hallway with no door.

@thisisnotfunny69 Ай бұрын

entropy zero 2 is not canon,

@OkachaWasTaken Ай бұрын

@@thisisnotfunny69 Who do they think they are? Hunt Down The Freeman? 😂

@thisisnotfunny69 Ай бұрын

@@OkachaWasTaken did i say hunt down the freeman was canon?

@wedoalittletrolling723 Ай бұрын

@@thisisnotfunny69 mods are not cannon, period

@SniperOnSunday Ай бұрын

Even so, they did a very good job of recreating it.

@mugyeah Ай бұрын

my knowledger.. ITS THINKING!! 💭

@kuro.mp3126 Ай бұрын

You missed the Gman TV secret in Anti-Citizen One

@thinklife_ Ай бұрын

oh yea, ill make a community post or something

@kuro.mp3126 Ай 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.mp3126 Ай бұрын

@@thinklife_ I uh, thought that. And then I noclipped into the floor, and I saw alyx

@ApernosOffical Ай бұрын

@@kuro.mp3126 thats because the NPC needs to be loaded into the map to be able to have their voicelines

@TylerLFGM Ай бұрын

I've always wanted to see these... thank you!!

@RedMenace0 Ай 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

@deepikapoddar2831 14 күн бұрын

Entropy 2

@Foebane72 13 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.

@LongNeckedBird Ай бұрын

5:28 one of those gotta be 3650

@tapehead-jeff Ай 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-jeff Ай 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!

@railworksamerica Ай бұрын

The KZfaq auto captions are doing a fine job today

@JuanGamer0202 Ай бұрын

Idk if its the way they talk, but for some reason the automatic captions did fine, that is weird it never works

@someperson4536 Ай бұрын

I thought you were being satire lol

@MathaikurvaEntertaimentsCo Ай 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

@FiYogurt Ай бұрын

Same

@i_am_theguy12 Ай 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

@SonOfTheChinChin Ай бұрын

i cant believe other game engines still dont have texture capturing and streaming like source

@SkedgyEdgy Ай бұрын

-- they literally do what

@SkedgyEdgy Ай бұрын

-- even in the ps1 era games did this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7GGdbp9nayXiHk.htmlsi=LXO6eZdFRooYXgU-&t=185

@MegariskyYT Ай бұрын

Basically every 3D engine in use today has virtual texture support

@halfsine Ай 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.

@theblah12 Ай бұрын

Name an engine that doesn’t?

@therealseagullking Ай бұрын

finding these in gmod was cool.

@DogsRNice Ай бұрын

One of the versus saxton hale maps in tf2 has one of these

@timeryar Ай бұрын

fnaf

@LongPeter Ай 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_get 10 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!

@Foebane72 13 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.

@cryptomonique 11 күн бұрын

alyx does the creepiest look after teleporting at 2:27

@dogman15 24 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.

@ittixen 7 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.

@ShinomiyaK1 8 күн бұрын

"Well kum" - The Best sentence in a op

@H2Oredfirefox 22 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

@zstewart 22 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.

@liguelxi1610 Ай бұрын

I have discovered some of them by myself, when trying noclip out. Thats really interesting

@bulletbeatboxer 18 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.

@Foebane72 13 күн бұрын

Doom 3 had cameras, too. You could even see yourself from behind in one of them, which was cool!

@Theunion24 Ай бұрын

I like how Lamar is just swimming in the air

@Inventure751 Ай 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_777 Ай 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 🎉

@coondogtheman Ай 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.

@HelenaFelona2008 Ай бұрын

The magic of render target cameras

@ad7799 Ай бұрын

5:38 I don´t remember seeing Lamard...

@TheSizzleDash 22 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

@lenadams854 Ай бұрын

@@thinklife_ she

@45hr52 Ай бұрын

Swimming in the air

@itdobelikedattho8112 Ай бұрын

@@thinklife_did you just misgender her?

@H2Oredfirefox 22 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🤔🤔🤔😀😀😀

@emmanueldelangel3014 Ай бұрын

In the part where Doctor Mossman transmits her message to Gordon and Alyx, it looks good in Entrophy Zero

@DonSanchez 5 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.

@MatthewBester Ай бұрын

I found Breen years ago, back in the day but I don't remember Kleiner. Awesome.

@elitesoldier3650 Ай бұрын

Professionally made! Deserves a like and subscribe.

@sagey08 Ай бұрын

yo dude, look at the comment above you

@PloVv-hu4qt Ай бұрын

@@sagey08 What comment?

@mrman2476 Ай 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?

@sagey08 Ай бұрын

at the time of writing my comment the commenter above him is a furry

@mrman2476 Ай бұрын

@@sagey08 Oh bit thaat's funny!! You get a funny badge. ⨶

@GimmilFactory 13 күн бұрын

Duct tape and wire ties.

@sonicobolt 28 күн бұрын

I love valve, god bless you Gaben, i hope you're healthy and your beard is as long as Santa's.

@alioeygamer1239 Ай бұрын

i love barney when he said in coming !!

@MichaelOfRohan 12 күн бұрын

Watch it just turn out to be a portal with a different graphic lol

@WinterGamesYT Ай бұрын

3:30 my parents having an argument be like

@labradoodle1886 Ай бұрын

Breen is a gorilla tag player confirmed

@GordonFreeman-l3p Ай бұрын

I Like That Breen Is Cut In Half

@butwhytho6522 9 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.

@kiroman258 29 күн бұрын

Разговаривает со стенкой😂 и летающие туловища с головой гениально

@yazidefirenze Ай бұрын

I can't believe Breen is a youtuber!

@Wolfy-02 2 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

@gvidobarscausks9272 Ай бұрын

awesome video

@PhattyBolger 16 күн бұрын

I don't understand why they put static behind the character models.

@1ndleun_what 21 күн бұрын

you can even kill dr breen

@SimonG258 Ай бұрын

5:28 the 2 elites both die here, that makes entropy zero 2 non canon

@sahaquiel4640 Ай бұрын

Fucking how

@naitor2594 Ай бұрын

you're not meant to see them dying though

@aggerdanny 28 күн бұрын

Breen didn’t wear his legs

@MiljanBojovic 16 күн бұрын

0:45 Dafuq are you looking at?

@SonicTheHedgehogModern Ай 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?

@jungkrist 24 күн бұрын

Well done 👌

@epic_expunged 21 күн бұрын

i guess hl2 wasnt advanced enough to play videos inside of the game so it becomes easier

@SNOUPS4 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@railworksamerica Ай бұрын

good video thank you

@kevinmaasik8558 Ай бұрын

nice video👍🏻👌

@elisa3257 Ай бұрын

We knew this

@suma4m 14 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_studio Ай бұрын

You can find him in gmod

@goofer-content 28 күн бұрын

ok why they actually make breen say the things tho

@SlimbTheSlime 20 күн бұрын

What about Alyx talking to Leon?

@NestyCZSK 27 күн бұрын

can you record how the train works? pls?

@lenadams854 Ай бұрын

5:33 ministridet

@sh_ne_ Ай бұрын

L video he stole my cs knife :(

@thinklife_ Ай бұрын

NOO~O~O !O@~@#2131234 walmart

@nguyenhuyhoang1010 29 күн бұрын

Entropy: Zero 1 & 2 ?

Ай бұрын

damn nice !!

@Barkevergulsen1713 Ай бұрын

If you spawn something in front of breen does it effect the breencast?

@thinklife_ Ай бұрын

yea

@ApernosOffical Ай бұрын

i did that in gmod once, and put the red teletubby over breen lmao

@heythatsprettygood6492 Ай бұрын

lit

@chikito5161 Ай бұрын

5:10 why not show from Entropy : Zero

@someperson4536 Ай бұрын

you aren't even meant to see it

@MetalboiSage-vi3ew 21 күн бұрын

Damn

@Nolevun_Shorts Ай бұрын

Мне больше с Кляйнером понравилось

@JoeAverage3325 Ай бұрын

I was gonna make a video about this but i thought nah everyone knows about this and it wouldn't get any views

@FürPreußen Ай бұрын

Alyx in the end gained G-Man's abilities.

@Cristobal631 Ай бұрын

Lamarr❤️‍🩹