Half-Life 2 Lost Coast Media

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  That's exactly what I think. I though this is supposed to be more real, not less. : yaniro
  • I dunno guys, the engine has very camera-centric properties built in like depth of field and whatnot. may... : get_navi
• Because the human dymanic range is enormous and can sense energy difference ratios greater than (and much... : bostrov
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  Yes it does. Ever tried to focus on someone's face while they're walking towards you in a hallway with... : Nullzero
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    you're both sort of right, the human eye has several more stops of dynamic range than even high quality c... : atheist_uberboy
    • I'd really like to see this without the bloom added. I think it would actually look better. I remembe... : 60days
• You can't simulate real eyeball vision with our current devices. Best we can do is simulate film and vide... : stuka
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  The dynamic range of a display device is usually called "contrast ratio". This is the ratio of the brigh... : Coriolis
  • so until computer mintors can display pitch black, as well as "bright as the sun" colors, than HDR is the... : SqueegyTBS
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    Too bad I want games to look like I'm actually playing them through the character's eyes, and not as if I... : floated
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      For that to work, you'd need a monitor that can be pitch black, and as bright as the sun. : garymct
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        thats just silly. you can simulate "bright as the sun" and "pitch black" with a monitor, and you wouldn't... : nandu666
        • I would want one brighter than all the suns combined. It's the american dream. : ArB
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        I use a solar monitor at work. It's awesome. : mallrice
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          why would we be wanting to look at monitors that are brighter than the sun??? u not all realise the sun b... : mattyboythefourth
          • There are two small problems with that: 1) A monitor could never be bright enough to rival the sun. Ev... : coldfusioncs
  • bloom = the new lens flare HDR soon to follow : coldfusioncs

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  I saw : Popedispencer
  • then i stab you in the back and become the new Emperor. : kabron
• I conquered : pun][sher

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• Cool video! The water (fresnel especially) looks really good- better than current game tech., IMHO- espec... : mn3m0n1c
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  The exposure thingy is neat. I can see people taking time to exit buildings because their eyes need to a... : Ratalon
  • exposure has been in far cry since the hdr patch. it rocks :) : SlamDunk
• I like how in the dark it adjust like yours eyes do so you can see in the dark. : voodooraze

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  it's called jpeg compression artifacts : Crimsonbeak
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    Not those ones, that seems to be in-engine artifacts. : ymgve
    • Agree'd. : famine101
  • No way. : rorshack
  • I'm pretty sure that's because of the shitty texture compression of modern video cards. : archon
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  You have to see this in full motion to appreciate it. That glow is dynamic. Very cool. : [7]kami
  • dynamic squares are still squares however. Wonder why they didn't go higher-res, or just blur and upsampl... : 60days
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  It's because the bloom is applied through an extremely low res overlay channel mapped with overexposed li... : stuka
  • Somehow I repeated myself. Somehow I repeated myself. : stuka

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• I think every DX9 level card can run Lost Coast : SlamDunk
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  Only Geforce 6 cards can enable HDR in FarCry. Has to do with chipsettech. Dunno if this is the same for ... : [7]kami
  • Valve loves ATI so I'd very much doubt this is the case. : Dynotaku
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    This is to do with Far Cry choosing to use the OpenEXR format which is only 32-bit-per-channel floating p... : Rolphus
    • Stop talking carmack. :-) : [7]kami
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      I quote "OpenEXR (.exr) is a high dynamic range image format developed and made freely available by Indus... : drabid
      • OpenEXR supports 16-bit float, 32-bit float and 32-bit int. It would be easy enough to convert a 16-bit f... : bostrov
      • Well, ATI *only* support 24-bit, so neither OpenEXR format is going to work on ATI cards... d'oh. : Rolphus
    • That's not the reason. The 6800 supports blending with floating point frame buffers, while ATI's cards d... : Coriolis
  • Since Far Cry started out as a tech demo for Nvidia hardware, it isn't surprizing that the hdr is only fo... : jccalhoun
  • It's because nVidia paid for CryTek to do the HDR work as promotional material for the GF6xxx, imo. : SpiderMonkey

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• Actually, if done right, HDR can provide an eerie effect of seeing the game thought a real video camera. ... : stuka

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  Practically :( Bloom is a poor man's HDR. But really HDR refers to more then just lighting and involves s... : d3tached
  • hdr is dynamic, bloom is static. hdr is much more than that 'glow' effect, too. : SlamDunk
  • Specifically it refers to lightning power, more than color. 16-bit color is actualyl plenty for color acq... : stuka
• Bloom is just a side effect of some HDRi scene. Bloom in and of itself does not necessarily constitute HD... : stuka

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  When it's done. : physio
  • No way : Reeves
• I think this summer : drneutron

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  except not : ballystix
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    you must have not looked at the screenshots : cam3lt0sis
    • the video shows otherwise, in motion it looks different from bloom. : ballystix
• Orlando Bloom'D : voodooraze

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  It's going to be an entire new level that takes place chronologically between Highway 17 and Sandtraps. ... : noleh8r
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    According to the "leaked" Lost Coast script that you can find in your HL2 GCF files, your objective is to... : noleh8r
    • Shame it got cut from the original game then, it'd have helped Ravenholm make a lot more sense if that's ... : SpiderMonkey
  • Are they going to insert it into the single player campaign for those who are going through the first tim... : famine101
• Ah man,I was hopping that this new feature would be added to HL2, but I guess not. Maybe in the future? ... : Darkfox76

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  Yea, cause it's too blurry. Same with all those terabytes of videos they released for HL2. They all looke... : rosone
  • How so? On my 'mid-range' PC (XP2400+/1G DDR400/GF6600GT-AGP/NForce 2- SS) at 10x7 rez, it actually looks : mn3m0n1c

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  Actually HDR in farcry doesn't work that well. Try crawling in a vent with it on, you'll be completely b... : rms
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    How do you turn on HDR in farcry? Will it work on my 9800xt? : not work safe
    • no it's NVidia only : shack_konto

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  It will be a free download. : noleh8r
  • cool... so it is almost like a tech demo - should be fun. : c_man_tmt

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  I'd hit it! o_O : DingoStoleMyBaby
  • With a crowbar. : alcaron

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• doh, pwnt by switching off javascript again. Was a reply to #49 http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9968349 : jaffacake

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  It was a minute or so of download time. What's the big deal? : bostrov
  • A minute? : gl2 drivers
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    not with a 200k cap : OrkO
    • Bah, first you gotta have 200kbit/s : rosone
  • so you downloaded with 2833 kb/s... yep.. ;) : lonestar3
• Welcome to 2005. High-res, low compression, phat pipes. : [7]kami

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• The joke would be cool but Gordon doesn't talk..try with Alyx or Barney next time :D : omontero

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  wtf http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/half_life_2/Half-Life+2:+Lost+Coast/1/hl2_coast/archway_hdr_exposu... : silentzero
  • I really hope the bloom whiners will whine about this as well... That looks like a jaggy overexposed p : SilverSnake
  • i just think it shows what it does, not what it will look like hehe. : Maarten Goldstein
• It's actually painful to look at. Like my eyes strain to find anything to focus on. Bloom/HDR is the wors... : plastic tyrant
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  watch the video it looks amazing. They chose horrible screenshots. : Crimsonbeak
  • screenshots really don't do justice to hdr : SlamDunk
• Guys, SS just show different levels of HDR. You obviously wouldn't put it as high as the one SS posted ab... : ShadowRam
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  This is obviously a technology that needs to be seen in motion : craigahart
  • Yeah the video reveals it as working extremely well. : SpiderMonkey

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  Well I don't see the HDR in action looking particularly sexy when you just take snap shots of it. I'm sur... : SpiderMonkey
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    http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=6832 :( : Maarten Goldstein
    • Heh, owned by reading comprehension. Thanks! : SpiderMonkey