Half Life Alpha: The Technology

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Half Life Alpha: The Technology

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Half Life Alpha: The Technology Demo
Taking a look at the HL Alpha from 1997. This time, going through the Tech Demo maps.
Music used from: • Half-Life Decay (Audio)
Intro Video (Credit To Ruffvan):
• [SFM] Gordon's Friday ...
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@EdwardOfTheAwesome 3 жыл бұрын

"Valve might replace Gordon with Ivan the Space Biker" I fail to see any issue.

@toxic_shr00m 3 жыл бұрын

Ivan the Space Biker should become a character in HL2E3, where he's the leader of a massive intergalactic Combine rebellion. Would be cool.

@curlyfry2047 Жыл бұрын

Ivan became Manwich in the H-L2 Bata, change my mind.

@plaguedoctor7345 3 жыл бұрын

3:43 if you are wondering yes that robot or polyrobo to be more specific has the most amount of polygon

@jd_kreeper2799 9 ай бұрын

It was also designed specifically to crash the engine, but it didn't.

@Matthew-di4lv 3 жыл бұрын

the enemy that showcases the skeleton animation is probably a cut enemy from prospero

@Drebin416 3 жыл бұрын

I remember reading somewhere that Half Life's audio is actually lacking features on modern hardware. Something that came along with the Sound Blaster audio card called EAX? I wonder if there would have been a significant difference in that DSP Effects room.

@spades2246 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe thats why when I play blueshift and Opposing force my dialogue cuts out randomly

@Name_cannot_be_blank 3 жыл бұрын

eax did boring sound presets and bad stereo

@andhieyusuf7008 3 жыл бұрын

You're right. I think it's because at some point Gabe Newell disregard Microsoft and remove MS's proprietary features from HL in effort to went Microsoft-free. Among the removed features are Direct3D rendering and EAX Reverb. But you can restore the EAX effects with a mod called MetaAudio.

@Name_cannot_be_blank 3 жыл бұрын

@@andhieyusuf7008 eax is from creative, not microsoft and directx is FORCED in source games no more opengl there someone said "hey could you remove directx, you can't use it on linux, and the half life 1 implementation sucks" i wouldn't have removed it, because its and optional feature, but they did nothing at going microsoft free directly

@nickie115 3 жыл бұрын

When you started talking about the sound room it felt like you were just about to do another Vertigo

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO. Funny thing is, that's exactly what I was thinking when recording the audio. "I hope the viewers don't think this bit is like the Vertigo video" :D

@thatdudemetro6271 3 жыл бұрын

The scientists in alpha are so short, also would be nice for the panthereye to be in the retail.

@dabogabo 3 жыл бұрын

I think the houdeye in the alpha looks kinda funny. It's like it has caviar instead of eyes.

@dozfoz123 Ай бұрын

True lol

@JasperFoxo 3 жыл бұрын

the goldsource engine was technically made using quake 1s engine but to be more specific its the quake world engine

@matijajovic8125 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on hitting 1k subs! Well deserved! I am waiting for HL 1 cut weapons and enemies video!

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@ElephantsDoingCrack 3 жыл бұрын

3:03 I remember looking at the Half-life trailer and it having that part in it. As a kid, it scared the living shit out of me. But I was always confused why they weren't in the game. Man Half-life could have been REALLY DARK, still glad we got the final Half-life 1. The first minute in this video is what I was talking about: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a72RqdFjnrKxoqc.html

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Lol yeah. It's weird that it's the exact same place, the Tech Demo map. They could've played that sequence in any other map and show it in the trailer.

@NexusLore 3 жыл бұрын

"half life could have been really dark" same pattern happened in HL2 and even HLA :D

@ElephantsDoingCrack 3 жыл бұрын

@@NexusLore Maybe one day... :( Well I guess Half-life 1 could still be considered somewhat "dark," but not in a hardcore way.

@dabogabo 3 жыл бұрын

@@ElephantsDoingCrack That's because HL1 and 2 don't necessarily follow the slasher horror genre to a T (Alien/Aliens, The Thing, Terminator), but they also implement comedy like in Day of the Dead and have parts that resemble classic disaster movies like The Towering Inferno or The Titanic with massive stuff being destroyed all around you.

@ElephantsDoingCrack 3 жыл бұрын

@@dabogabo yeah. Why I said "somewhat"

@tech34756 3 жыл бұрын

I found the dancing robot goes nicely with the Alpha version of Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar.

@JJ-jm1js 3 жыл бұрын

1k subs!!!!! This channel has come so far from when I first subbed at around 140 subscribers!

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Ayyy thank you!!

@JackBradley07 3 жыл бұрын

All the alpha character models looks like they're maniacs lol

@henryfleischer404 3 жыл бұрын

The mech in the high-poly count room looks just like a zentradi battle pod from Robotech ( or macross if you are not American), aside from the coloration.

@danskartbg9736 3 жыл бұрын

YOOOOO 1.000 subscriber!!!!!! I am very happy for you.

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my man

@numericalman 3 жыл бұрын

My little theory and observations: I believe the older Gold Source engine is used to build Source on, the lighting is almost 1:1 from the Alpha and not Retail GS, the sound is also the same, (The OG leak and not the Mega build you can hear the zombies only loud if you look directly at them but if you move your head to the right or left you cant hear them at all even if they are right next to you) something that also kind of backs this up is the Head bobbing from left and right like in quake, it was in this build and in the Half-Life leak, if you were to make a "Multiplayer" game the head bobbing will be enabled which is no where in Retail source.

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Might be possible that they reused the Alpha engine code for Source. Similar to how they used a little bit of Quake engine's code for making GS.

@dracmeister 3 жыл бұрын

Actually Source was made out of the Havok Engine primarily using it's physics modules. Like idTech2(Quake), Valve got the rights to use the engine and heavily modify it to make GoldSrc same thing happened with Havok being heavily modified to make Source.

@KingMetalMario 2 жыл бұрын

@@dracmeister Havok is just a physics engine which you can integrate onto an existing game engine

@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn Жыл бұрын

Guys im confused as fuck. Please give me a timeline

@Sodaholic6502 Жыл бұрын

@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn Ignore OP and dracmeister, they don't know what they're talking about. This alpha engine was an early version of GoldSource, it was actually being called "Valve Game Engine" at the time. However, they always internally referred to it as "Source" as a lazy shorthand for the name of their engine source code directory, which was "src", short for source, short for source code. GoldSource is actually a fork of Source created at the end of HL1's development. It was called "gold" because the game was "going gold", an industry term for creating the "gold master" copy which meant it was the finalized build to have discs pressed at the factory. The reason for this is because they were constantly iterating on Source, and did not want to accidentally break HL1 with their experimental new features. GoldSource was patched every once in a while after HL1 was released for bugfixes and QOL improvements, but most of its changes never found its way back to Source. The Source engine we know today is the result of 6 years of iteration.

@AlphaZeroX96 3 жыл бұрын

That stuff was already done before actually.

@Koniving 3 жыл бұрын

That new image of Ivan was good enough that I want to see him.

@HL2Parovoz 3 жыл бұрын

Superb 1k! Congrats!!!

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@korbi3449 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid as always, right :D

@bulletsftw3655 3 жыл бұрын

[3:48] I think its one of those mechs from the anime Robotech

@yagibolillos96 Жыл бұрын

3:40 Half life Pre-release moment 'FREEZE!!'

@alexlokanin3312 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah I'd love to play as Ivan the Space Biker, unsubscribing!

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao please don't :')

@Turbs94945 3 жыл бұрын

Love how there are 0 dislikes

@yiaboi2287 3 жыл бұрын

Nice videos dude!

@Matthew-di4lv 3 жыл бұрын

congrats for 1000 subs

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt!

@atariboy9084 3 жыл бұрын

The High Poly Robot is base from a 80s anime cartoon Macross (aka Robotech) enemy ship call Reguld Robot Regalia - i.pinimg.com/564x/6a/92/ed/6a92ed2e01be60f34c6efdc989317786.jpg Had one as a kid in the 80s kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbuBfZiQy7-wdps.html Funfact: The Dace that the Robot was doing was from the Dancing Baby from the 90s - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby

@bikerfrommiami 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1k bro.

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my dude

@scarletcrusader5431 Жыл бұрын

3:44 Half-Life Prerelease moment

@poggers9654 3 жыл бұрын

The dancing robot is very similar to P-Body

@DreamVikings 3 жыл бұрын

The dancing robot is from the classic Robotech bad guys.

@EliteWood1337 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for video

@theplaguedoctor463 3 жыл бұрын

RadHaz AndreDew

@IBM1401-TXT 3 жыл бұрын

headcrab was here

@dylanxdstarwars5686 3 жыл бұрын

7:25 I will look away it was Mr friendly you where preferring to right

@sirincompetent758 3 жыл бұрын

beef jerky is just cow raisins

@SASTSimon Жыл бұрын

5:29 isnt that the room where the marine tech demo videos were recorded

@hhuuuk 3 жыл бұрын

Meth barney secutity guards

@toxenzz 2 жыл бұрын

that ending was god-tier editing!

@snarkfromhl 2 жыл бұрын

1997: This is Half Life! Your purpose is to shoot bad guys with your square head and your gun with infinite ammo.

@Bigfanm3new 3 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say, the dancing robot was most likely based off ED-209 from robocop 1987, compare their feet

@Tamamo-no-Bae 3 жыл бұрын

No, it's a Zentradi pod from Macross.

@Bigfanm3new 3 жыл бұрын

@@Tamamo-no-Bae ive never seen that before, resembles the ed209 alot

@mfaizsyahmi Жыл бұрын

Your description about model animation prior to Half-Life is outright wrong. It's not that a model has multiple parts (Half-Life's models have this too) but because Quake models simply have no bones, so Quake needed to move every single vertex of the model's mesh in order to animate it. Skeletal animation means there are meshes, and there are bones. vertices on the meshes are assigned to the bones. So animating the model is reduced to only moving the bones, and the vertices of the meshes follow their assigned bones.

@glmedsf 2 жыл бұрын

This game terrified me as a kid wen I first played it on Playstation 2. But now it brings back so many good memories.

@wolfcl0ck 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder when we'll finally grab another alpha version. Perhaps one with the x-labs female scientist's actual model rather than simply a placeholder scientist. I'd take anything, to be frank.

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

It'd be neat honestly. But I wonder why don't those folks upload the content of the Alpha builds if they have it in their possession.

@wolfcl0ck 3 жыл бұрын

@@RadiationHazardYT Geoff seems to not want to upload his without permission from Valve, and he also seems to not want to ask Valve for permission. As for others who received press copies of early builds, it's hard to say. Perhaps they're locked away in back rooms somewhere collecting dust.

@They0ungTravler Жыл бұрын

3:56 To me it looks like “Dog” before HalfLife2 was made. It just seems very similar in regards to the personality and the movement

@chief6926 3 жыл бұрын

BASED

@dibberz-v1z 3 жыл бұрын

actually i believe the dancing robot is more based off he alien mechs in robotech (an anime from the 80s)

@TheConsulC17 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video, a little *based* though.

@user-ig5oy7kp5g 3 жыл бұрын

Ima be real sad if barney isn't in half life 3

@thatemocat 2 жыл бұрын

This is incredible for the time in 1997!

@sharacline8754 3 жыл бұрын

this is good, can you do a video on the different iterations of the citadel in the hl2 beta?

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and sure. I've got a long list of videos to do, so I'm not sure how soon that'll be made, but I'll make it :)

@gamepad3173 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought that Ivan the Biker had a thick russian accent who took quite a lot of military courses(achieving the rank of Captain or Colonial) and then later due to a freak accident due to a couple of people monkeying around with grenades Ivan decided (after his surgery) to take up science and pursue theoretical physics. before we got Gordon Freeman.

@dripnx6381 Жыл бұрын

THE 6,000 POLYGON ROBOT

@_notch 3 жыл бұрын

Using a snes game to show dithering and saying ti was used to overcome hardware limitations is a bit unfortunate. The snes has hardware support for a variety of transparency effects.

@FuroskiGoRawr 3 жыл бұрын

You're sooo underrated

@chalkymalky 3 жыл бұрын

Another banger from our boi

@JBarG22 3 жыл бұрын

One thousand subs

@redacted6592 3 жыл бұрын

0:00-0:07 ... I don't mind

@jorymo4964 2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, some modern games like XCOM 2 have at least partially gone back to dithering in place of transparency

@halftime919 3 жыл бұрын

Mad Scientist.

@midwaygamer-ou3my Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered? Is half-life just a fancy quake mod? Like can you use quake commands in the game? Because if it's a mod of the quake engine shouldn't there still be remnants of quake in the game or the engine?

@They0ungTravler Жыл бұрын

You could say “fancy quake mod” but that’s like saying a child is a “fancy clone” of their parent. Yeah they share DNA, but are two completely different things. The code and tools that run Half-Life is WAAYYYY different than Quakes.

@HaliOnRepeat 3 жыл бұрын

Alphapilled?

@butbass2158 3 жыл бұрын

😍

@georgeoldsterd8994 5 ай бұрын

Oooh, where did you get those Quake models at 3:35?

@theconsulfromthehl2beta362 3 жыл бұрын

So hl1 has a lot of cut weapons like hl2?

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

Not really. It has a few weird cut weapons. Has some interesting cut enemies tho.

@Flashyface 3 жыл бұрын

but there are many early weapon designs that were found, like a early gluon gun and tau cannon, aswell as a early rpg. very interesting stuff. (man this makes me wish the build shown off in half-life: preliminary findings was released which not only contained a early on a rail. but a early surface tension aswell.)

@RadiationHazardYT 3 жыл бұрын

True. I'll show the appearance differences in the video.

@IDHLEB 3 жыл бұрын

7:27 Trypophobia?

@theextremeanimator4721 3 жыл бұрын

Why u no like houndaei

@whirl3690 Жыл бұрын

Transparency wasn't exactly revolutionary at the time. It's a bit ironic that you use Mega Man X4 as an example of dithering being the standard, since the PlayStation version of that game had actual transparency for the background spotlights.

@swagger5525 3 жыл бұрын

its funny your voice beacuse you sound like barney

@southcarolinianentertainment 2 жыл бұрын

2:17 That is a really bad looking glitch. For me, the footage just went death-mode and looked like some 5 year old artist wanted to paint something 'cool'.