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Half Life 2 - Lost Coast HDR Explained

Posted by Zonk on from the you've-got-to-love-bloom dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes: "Valve has released some amazing new screenshots of Half Life 2: Lost Coast, showing off the new-found technical wizardry called High-Dynamic Range rendering. It is the same advanced lighting that makes Unreal 3.0 look so good, except it will be available very soon for Half Life 2. Bit-tech has written a guide to all the new stuff like Blooming and HDR Cube Maps which explains everything you can expect to see when Lost Coast comes out."

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  1. How? by RickPartin · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know very little about graphics programming. Can someone please give me a boiled down explanation of how they are making a computer monitor brighter than normal with HDR? Or is this not a hardware hack at all?

    The article is very light on details.