Portal 2 at GamesCom

[Armageddon]

I hate his new voice. I want the old funny one back...

It's much better now, it has lots of characteristics.

The otehr one had more personality...

[zombie@computer]

I was not thinking complete overhaul, we still have to wait till computer that are 10yrs old can handle dynamic lighting......
But it is a lot better looking!

its still hardly any better than doom3s level of dynamic lighting (2004!).

Rest of the leveldesign looks awesome. Some of the puzzles seem a bit farfetched/complicated though.

[Plague]

Never said it was amazing, again as i said before...
We need to wait for old equipment to be capable.

[zombie@computer]

Never said it was amazing, again as i said before...
We need to wait for old equipment to be capable.

never said you said...

wait, nevermind.

[source-maps]

Never said it was amazing, again as i said before...
We need to wait for old equipment to be capable.

never said you said...

wait, nevermind.

dutch humor

[Plague]

Yeah word twisting there...
Sounded better in my head.

[ErikKiller]

Never said it was amazing, again as i said before...
We need to wait for old equipment to be capable.

never said you said...

wait, nevermind.

douche humor

Fix'd.

[Plague]

lol

[Gary]

As long as they properly optimized it, the dynamic lighting shouldn't hurt very much at all. And if the dynamic lighting is too much for you, you can always disable it.

Really, they had no choice but to use true dynamic lighting if they wanted both a dynamic world and a good looking game.

[Plague]

As long as they properly optimized it, the dynamic lighting shouldn't hurt very much at all. And if the dynamic lighting is too much for you, you can always disable it.

Really, they had no choice but to use true dynamic lighting if they wanted both a dynamic world and a good looking game.

But like you bring up, it wont be the primary lighting. Unless I'm mistaken and they took that step.
It could be used for optional effects but it cant be a requirement since older computers will have to be able to disable it.

Did i miss Valve losing their creed to supply the largest number of users with their games?

[Welsh Mullet]

All i have to say is....

DAT GLASS

I see COD style surf glass :3

[stoopdapoop]

hmm, I wonder why wheatley has such a natural sounding human voice, yet glados (and the turrets) have such robotic sounding voices.

[Gary]

But like you bring up, it wont be the primary lighting. Unless I'm mistaken and they took that step.
It could be used for optional effects but it cant be a requirement since older computers will have to be able to disable it.

Did i miss Valve losing their creed to supply the largest number of users with their games?

Well, looking at it closer, it almost looks like they use the shadowmapped lighting for all the shadows.

[Armageddon]

All i have to say is....

DAT GLASS

I see COD style surf glass :3

I don't see that at all, it looks like they just removed the normal glass and turned on 2 func_brush's that have a broken glass material.

[Plague]

Well, looking at it closer, it almost looks like they use the shadowmapped lighting for all the shadows.

Thats what i imagine, but its still prolonging the inevitable...
Once they can be assured that something i guess like 80%-90% of their user base can run full dynamic lighting we'll see it...

In fact, its kinda a god sens we have to wait so long for EP3, it will look better the longer it takes....