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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. 2005 by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 4, Funny

    we dont have flying cars yet, but at least we can make 'white' in video games REAL FUCKIN' WHITE

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    1. Re:2005 by Cornflake917 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I know dude! It's gonna be so sweet! I just hope it will be as good as Doom 3's COMPLETELY BLACK DARKNESS!

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  2. HDR HL2 Renderings by LordStraun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A month or so ago, someone took some HL2 models and rendered them with HDL. Then he put those renderings into his back-yard.

    You can see them here

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