half life 2 engine

Icer · Post by **Icer** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 04:47 pm

why cant you guys use the half life 2 engine, or what was it called, "source" or something? well whatever. it be cool too, all the nice models that can be used and stuff. the quake1 engine is lame as hell, im sure that the half life 2 engine would be more sufficeint. i know the quake engine allows players to play even if they dont have the original but if they dont have the game, go buy it! stop being cheap!
check out this conversion that remakes the n64 game goldeneye.

goldeneye source

heres a screenshot, its not showing much, but i couldent get a better pic.

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 04:57 pm

There are many reasons to why there not using the half life 2 engine, you will be explained this, questions like theses have been answered already.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 05:01 pm

1, The HL2 engine is not open sourced (you can get the sources if you pay, of course)
2, It's for windows only

The TF project's goals are:

-make a free, open sourced game based on Blood
-make this game cross-platform

End of discussion.

Icer wrote:the quake1 engine is lame as hell

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Icer · Post by **Icer** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 05:19 pm

are you calling me a noob dumbo? i only suggested this, the last time i checked this was the SUGGESTIONS FORUM right? so get over it.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 05:20 pm

Drakan · Post by **Drakan** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 05:35 pm

You have no idea how many times everyone's had this worthless discussion with some passer-byer, do you?

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 06:32 pm

BU TTHE GAME SUCKS IF IT DOES NOT HAVE RAGDOOLS, ROLING CRATES AND REFLECTIVE WATER NO

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scar3crow · Post by **scar3crow** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 08:37 pm

ah... humor... suggesting Source because the Quake engine is "lame"...

you know what, you should use trains for transportation, because those vehicles you use that run on rails are lame.

Icer · Post by **Icer** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:03 pm

god, i didnt know how definsive you guys could be about your precious quake engine, jeesh!

scar3crow · Post by **scar3crow** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:18 pm

You mean your precious Source engine, because its the same engine.

Suggesting using Source is recommending a regression in technology and a lot of needless extra work to port things.

DarkPlaces is just fine, considering it is more powerful than Source and most other engines. What you are recommending is a loss of time, for lower quality with a more narrow playing field on significantly weaker technology.
Source only looks good because Valve has a good texture and model team, it is ancient in reality.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:21 pm

Yeah. Check out Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. It's powered by Source, and it looks ugly as hell.

Zardoz · Post by **Zardoz** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:39 am

It's in the read before posting thread and even the "about transfusion" page but why not make a sticky called "You should use the______ engine". I mean it comes up over and over again so people obviously need to vent there spleens on this issue no matter what. If we get it in a sticky maybe it would be easier to avoid for those who've been around a while.

Icer · Post by **Icer** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 02:17 am

i always read the read before posting stuff. its important. i just wanted to bring it up that the quake engine is absolute crap. thats all im trying to point out in this post.

scar3crow · Post by **scar3crow** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 02:39 am

If thats what youre trying to do then I suggest you stop pointing and stop merely shouting. If you are making a case of Valve's modification of the Quake engine for HL2, then yes you could say it is more powerful than stock Quake engine, but Transfusion is using DarkPlaces, which is hardly weak.