New INSANE hirez pack for HL2 out

Pluvious · Jan 16, 2006, 09:11 PM

Surprised DH didn't have this on the front pages as NEWS but check this out:

Description:
This is the long awaited next version of Fakefactory's Cinematic mod but this version changes all of the textures to an insane high level of detail which is brilliant. And it also adds the following game changes. Music: It adds a more of an musical score to Half-Life 2 which makes the game a whole lot better. It actually gives it an "Hollywood" feel. Textures: It changes almost every Low-Resolution texture to an High-Resolution texture. Which gives the game a more immersing feel to it. It almost makes it look life-like. Weapons: It adds more balancing to weapons and strengthens the weapons to a more realistic level and the damages are life-life as well (e.g. One shot to the head = One kill) but unfortunately for you that same rule applies. Full disclosure of all of the changes can be found in the readme file. Great work as usual FakeFactory.

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...ne_Hires;54352

A new Hi-REZ pack that makes ALL the textures better. Awesome new intro movie that actauly explains things and sets up the game better. The new soundtrack is really inspiring as well. Very grand.
The high res runs fine on my rig even with 2x AA on! (all HIGH) Until you get the flashlight with the suit you might not notice the detail in the faces. Barney's sideburns are a good example.
One small quirk though.. I had some really weird problems after you get teleported outside near the window. I started seeing CODE(?) in the flashes and the hud got all messed up after that.

MythicaL · Jan 16, 2006, 10:22 PM

I wonder how this would run on a 9800p...

SFOSOK · Jan 17, 2006, 12:12 AM

Its actually not that much more demanding. It also adds a great amount of depth to the textures. I have been using fake factories hi res models for HL 2 since they had em out.

Dark Lord · Jan 17, 2006, 12:32 AM

downloading now. ive been useing the other fakefactory stuff already and love it.

Pluvious · Jan 17, 2006, 12:39 AM

Wow.. the weapon damage adjustment is really well done. The gun sounds have been beefed up as well. I'm a little past the canals from a restart on Normal difficultly. Really cool how the music is done, gotta say.. the texttures on the radios, coke machines and even the weapons are just amazing. Pretty large file but WELL worth it IMHO.

OmegaRED · Jan 17, 2006, 12:40 AM

Downloading now...this is great news and proves the HL2 engine could compete if not beat the Doom3 engine in the future. Think Quake 4 but with HL2 massive fps and scalability on older cards! Question is, can other game companies use this engine or is it valve only? Cause they barely have any titles.

OmegaRED · Jan 17, 2006, 01:17 AM

FYI there are 2 more updates for this:

Hotfix 2.17
http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...k_Update;54499

Update 2.18

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...es_Patch;54843

[hobo]eclipse · Jan 17, 2006, 01:43 AM

ya i scooped these up the opther day, i like the more classic movie music effect and the beginning movie how it explained a lil of the HL2 story, but the new textures are amazing and all the new looks of the the characters, i really like the new combine soldiers look, very impressive, as i had not a trouble with eveything maxed out ingame w 2aa 4af, also played very well most of the time at 4aa 8af but the water scenes were a lil iffy @ like 25 fps or less, my vid card is chokin me now with this new setup

OmegaRED · Jan 17, 2006, 01:46 AM

I'm planning on running it at 1156x 4AA/8AF Adaptive Antialiasing hopefully it doesnt choke.

mainman · Jan 17, 2006, 01:49 AM

wow...talk about photo realistic detail...damn...

Randomletters · Jan 17, 2006, 02:59 AM

awesome downloading now, wont be able to play till tomorrow but ah well, Ive never played HL2 all the way through so tomorrows the day.

[hobo]eclipse · Jan 17, 2006, 03:17 AM

ya i also had on adaptive aa and HQ af, both set via tray tools with a rez of 1280*800 at 85htz

Dark Lord · Jan 17, 2006, 04:05 AM

damn, the game looks amazing with this new mod.

[hobo]eclipse · Jan 17, 2006, 04:53 AM

some screenies!

Pluvious · Jan 17, 2006, 06:13 AM

Here's a few of mine.. came out a lot darker compared to ingame..

In the lab I found this improvement as well:

And quite impressive is his use of this picture of Bai Ling :

to create this:

Dark Lord · Jan 17, 2006, 06:22 AM

good to see imageshack is back up, ill put up some of mine.

Dark Lord · Jan 17, 2006, 06:25 AM

im running everything on high, 1024x768, 6xaa, 16xaf. ive only seen a couple of drops below 30fps.

OmegaRED · Jan 17, 2006, 08:08 AM

Load times are a killer with this hi res pack sometimes up to a minute!

Im running 1156x 4A All settings high but the load times are driving me nuts.

pr0digal jenius · Jan 17, 2006, 08:47 AM

I'm not seeing how this makes a hill of beans worth of difference if you're actually playing the game. Sure, if you walk around TRYING to admire them, it would, but unless you stop and read everything and go 'wow, look at the wall" for 5 minutes here and there, it seems useless

SFOSOK · Jan 17, 2006, 08:51 AM

Believe me PJ the game looks and plays quite a bit better if you have a good enough system on it. At first its like ooo ahh and standing around studdying the detail, but it just plays differently to me. It isn't a prob for my rig so, hell, why not : ).

IvanV · Jan 17, 2006, 09:27 AM

A bit off topic, but the third screenshot by [hobo]eclipse (the Combine "resting") is one of the funniest I've ever seen!

[hobo]eclipse · Jan 17, 2006, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IvanV

A bit off topic, but the third screenshot by [hobo]eclipse (the Combine "resting") is one of the funniest I've ever seen!

ya i dig that one as well, cmon PJ dont knock it till you tried it!

INSTG8R · Jan 18, 2006, 01:42 PM

DoH!!! I was just about to give this a go.....

It has been removed...Link

Mazuko · Jan 18, 2006, 02:06 PM

Horray for stealing someone elses bump maps and using them without crediting them within the creation.....sigh.

3 files of FakeFactory that has been hosted on HL2files.com has been removed. Those 3 are the following below:

Quote: Half-Life 2 Fakefactory Cinematic Insane Hires (v2.16)
FAKEFACTORY's Cinematic & HiRes Pack Update (Hotfix v2.17)
Half-Life 2 Fakefactory Cinematic / HiRes Patch (V2.18)

The reason is because Copyrights. It seems FakeFactory is using bump maps that someone else has created. There for i have removed these 3 files above that contained those bump maps. The person that emailed me with this information also attempted to contact FakeFactory with 2 emails, without any reply from fakefactory.

Quote: Ogg_zizii has announced he'll close his site soon because FAKEFACTORY Cinematic MOD has stolen his bump maps. FAKEFACTORY's bumpmaps are made using Ogg_zizii's image. Some parts are slightly changed, but you can clearly see the origin for example in Police's clothes winkles, and image alpha channels. See how FAKEFACTORY copied parts from OGG's image, and it's notable the bump map alpha channel is exactly the same. HL2 originally didn't have these bumpmaps. OGG_Zizii has made bump map and its alpha channel himself. It's a solid proof that FAKEFACTORY has stolen his bumpmaps.

http://halflife2.filefront.com/news/...opyright;24618

BWX · Jan 18, 2006, 02:28 PM

That sucks....

Necrosis · Jan 18, 2006, 05:16 PM

Damn I was going to download this soon, and try it out. Hmm anyone have another download link for it???

No_Style · Jan 18, 2006, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

I'm not seeing how this makes a hill of beans worth of difference if you're actually playing the game. Sure, if you walk around TRYING to admire them, it would, but unless you stop and read everything and go 'wow, look at the wall" for 5 minutes here and there, it seems useless

It's not worth going out of your way to replay the entire game for, but I'll probably download it when I have the urge to play HL2 again (Probably just before Aftermath..).

Pluvious · Jan 18, 2006, 06:57 PM

Boy am I sure glad I got them when I did!! What a shame, since the pack was a real nice bonus. I thought it was worth replaying again for them .. that's for sure.

Dark Lord · Jan 18, 2006, 07:03 PM

ya, im real glad i grabed these when they first went up.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jan 18, 2006, 08:06 PM

whats a bigger performance hit, quake 4 parallax maping or this?

Jan 16, 2006, 09:11 PM	#1
Pluvious Elisha = hottie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA CA. SF Bay Area Posts: 1,318 Rep Power: 0	New INSANE hirez pack for HL2 out Surprised DH didn't have this on the front pages as NEWS but check this out: Description: This is the long awaited next version of Fakefactory's Cinematic mod but this version changes all of the textures to an insane high level of detail which is brilliant. And it also adds the following game changes. Music: It adds a more of an musical score to Half-Life 2 which makes the game a whole lot better. It actually gives it an "Hollywood" feel. Textures: It changes almost every Low-Resolution texture to an High-Resolution texture. Which gives the game a more immersing feel to it. It almost makes it look life-like. Weapons: It adds more balancing to weapons and strengthens the weapons to a more realistic level and the damages are life-life as well (e.g. One shot to the head = One kill) but unfortunately for you that same rule applies. Full disclosure of all of the changes can be found in the readme file. Great work as usual FakeFactory. http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...ne_Hires;54352 A new Hi-REZ pack that makes ALL the textures better. Awesome new intro movie that actauly explains things and sets up the game better. The new soundtrack is really inspiring as well. Very grand. The high res runs fine on my rig even with 2x AA on! (all HIGH) Until you get the flashlight with the suit you might not notice the detail in the faces. Barney's sideburns are a good example. One small quirk though.. I had some really weird problems after you get teleported outside near the window. I started seeing CODE(?) in the flashes and the hud got all messed up after that. __________________

Jan 16, 2006, 10:22 PM	#2
MythicaL I like computers. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In front of a monitor Posts: 3,390 Rep Power: 95 System Specs	I wonder how this would run on a 9800p... __________________ Always knew I didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust.

Jan 17, 2006, 12:12 AM	#3
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,005 Rep Power: 96 System Specs	Its actually not that much more demanding. It also adds a great amount of depth to the textures. I have been using fake factories hi res models for HL 2 since they had em out. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Jan 17, 2006, 12:32 AM	#4
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,909 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	downloading now. ive been useing the other fakefactory stuff already and love it. __________________

Jan 17, 2006, 12:39 AM	Thread Starter #5
Pluvious Elisha = hottie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA CA. SF Bay Area Posts: 1,318 Rep Power: 0	Wow.. the weapon damage adjustment is really well done. The gun sounds have been beefed up as well. I'm a little past the canals from a restart on Normal difficultly. Really cool how the music is done, gotta say.. the texttures on the radios, coke machines and even the weapons are just amazing. Pretty large file but WELL worth it IMHO. __________________

Jan 17, 2006, 12:40 AM	#6
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,704 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	Downloading now...this is great news and proves the HL2 engine could compete if not beat the Doom3 engine in the future. Think Quake 4 but with HL2 massive fps and scalability on older cards! Question is, can other game companies use this engine or is it valve only? Cause they barely have any titles. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs Last edited by OmegaRED; Jan 17, 2006 at 12:45 AM.

Jan 17, 2006, 01:17 AM	#7
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,704 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	FYI there are 2 more updates for this: Hotfix 2.17 http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...k_Update;54499 Update 2.18 http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...es_Patch;54843 __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Jan 17, 2006, 01:43 AM	#8
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,889 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	ya i scooped these up the opther day, i like the more classic movie music effect and the beginning movie how it explained a lil of the HL2 story, but the new textures are amazing and all the new looks of the the characters, i really like the new combine soldiers look, very impressive, as i had not a trouble with eveything maxed out ingame w 2aa 4af, also played very well most of the time at 4aa 8af but the water scenes were a lil iffy @ like 25 fps or less, my vid card is chokin me now with this new setup

Jan 17, 2006, 01:46 AM	#9
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,704 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	I'm planning on running it at 1156x 4AA/8AF Adaptive Antialiasing hopefully it doesnt choke. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Jan 17, 2006, 01:49 AM	#10
mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,961 Rep Power: 77	wow...talk about photo realistic detail...damn...

Jan 17, 2006, 02:59 AM	#11
Randomletters ))<>(( Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Worcester, MA Posts: 2,433 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	awesome downloading now, wont be able to play till tomorrow but ah well, Ive never played HL2 all the way through so tomorrows the day. __________________ SandyBuild Ver. i3

Jan 17, 2006, 03:17 AM	#12
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,889 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	ya i also had on adaptive aa and HQ af, both set via tray tools with a rez of 1280*800 at 85htz

Jan 17, 2006, 04:05 AM	#13
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,909 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	damn, the game looks amazing with this new mod. __________________

Jan 17, 2006, 04:53 AM	#14
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,889 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	some screenies!

Jan 17, 2006, 06:13 AM	Thread Starter #15
Pluvious Elisha = hottie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA CA. SF Bay Area Posts: 1,318 Rep Power: 0	Here's a few of mine.. came out a lot darker compared to ingame.. In the lab I found this improvement as well: And quite impressive is his use of this picture of Bai Ling : to create this: __________________

Jan 18, 2006, 01:42 PM	#23
INSTG8R DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canadian lost in Norway Posts: 516 Rep Power: 0	DoH!!! I was just about to give this a go..... It has been removed...Link __________________ Sys. Specs. Intel E6600@3.2\|Abit IP35 Pro\|2x1024 Crucial Ballistix PC8500 \|Sapphire HD4870 512\|Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500G SATAII 16MB w/PRT\|SB X-Fi Fatality\|TT Tough Power 1200W\|TT Kandalf L.C.S.\|Samsung 204B 20" 5ms LCD\|Logitech G25\|Logitech G5\|Logitech G15\|Saitek X-52+Pro Rudder Pedals\|TrackIR w/Trackclip Pro 3DMark06

Jan 18, 2006, 02:28 PM	#25
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,602 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	That sucks.... __________________ M5A99FX PRO R2.0, FX8150, GIGABYTE WindForce GTX 670 @1215/6110, G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 x 4GB DDR3 1866, CM Hyper 212 EVO, TT Black Widow 850W, Rosewill BLACKHAWK case

Jan 17, 2006, 06:22 AM	#16
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,909 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	good to see imageshack is back up, ill put up some of mine. __________________

Jan 17, 2006, 06:25 AM	#17
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,909 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	im running everything on high, 1024x768, 6xaa, 16xaf. ive only seen a couple of drops below 30fps. __________________

Jan 17, 2006, 08:08 AM	#18
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,704 Rep Power: 183 System Specs	Load times are a killer with this hi res pack sometimes up to a minute! Im running 1156x 4A All settings high but the load times are driving me nuts. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Jan 17, 2006, 08:47 AM	#19
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,526 Rep Power: 0	I'm not seeing how this makes a hill of beans worth of difference if you're actually playing the game. Sure, if you walk around TRYING to admire them, it would, but unless you stop and read everything and go 'wow, look at the wall" for 5 minutes here and there, it seems useless

Jan 17, 2006, 08:51 AM	#20
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,005 Rep Power: 96 System Specs	Believe me PJ the game looks and plays quite a bit better if you have a good enough system on it. At first its like ooo ahh and standing around studdying the detail, but it just plays differently to me. It isn't a prob for my rig so, hell, why not : ). __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Jan 17, 2006, 09:27 AM	#21
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6,991 Rep Power: 535 System Specs	A bit off topic, but the third screenshot by [hobo]eclipse (the Combine "resting") is one of the funniest I've ever seen! __________________

Jan 18, 2006, 02:06 PM	#24
Mazuko DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 1,008 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Horray for stealing someone elses bump maps and using them without crediting them within the creation.....sigh. 3 files of FakeFactory that has been hosted on HL2files.com has been removed. Those 3 are the following below: Quote: Half-Life 2 Fakefactory Cinematic Insane Hires (v2.16) FAKEFACTORY's Cinematic & HiRes Pack Update (Hotfix v2.17) Half-Life 2 Fakefactory Cinematic / HiRes Patch (V2.18) The reason is because Copyrights. It seems FakeFactory is using bump maps that someone else has created. There for i have removed these 3 files above that contained those bump maps. The person that emailed me with this information also attempted to contact FakeFactory with 2 emails, without any reply from fakefactory. Quote: Ogg_zizii has announced he'll close his site soon because FAKEFACTORY Cinematic MOD has stolen his bump maps. FAKEFACTORY's bumpmaps are made using Ogg_zizii's image. Some parts are slightly changed, but you can clearly see the origin for example in Police's clothes winkles, and image alpha channels. See how FAKEFACTORY copied parts from OGG's image, and it's notable the bump map alpha channel is exactly the same. HL2 originally didn't have these bumpmaps. OGG_Zizii has made bump map and its alpha channel himself. It's a solid proof that FAKEFACTORY has stolen his bumpmaps. http://halflife2.filefront.com/news/...opyright;24618 __________________ E-bay feedback: http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...me=STRK:ME:UFS

Jan 18, 2006, 05:16 PM	#26
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,759 Rep Power: 140 System Specs	Damn I was going to download this soon, and try it out. Hmm anyone have another download link for it???

Jan 18, 2006, 06:57 PM	Thread Starter #28
Pluvious Elisha = hottie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: USA CA. SF Bay Area Posts: 1,318 Rep Power: 0	Boy am I sure glad I got them when I did!! What a shame, since the pack was a real nice bonus. I thought it was worth replaying again for them .. that's for sure. __________________

Jan 18, 2006, 07:03 PM	#29
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,909 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	ya, im real glad i grabed these when they first went up. __________________

Jan 18, 2006, 08:06 PM	#30
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,747 Rep Power: 113 System Specs	whats a bigger performance hit, quake 4 parallax maping or this? __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard