Half-Life 1 Alpha has been released.

[Gurluas]

Check this out, It's awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7bTo5xLyQ

 

[Hakariaki]

Nice, havent seen a version that old of HL befor. lets all travel back to 1997 and play it NPC looked funny

 

[Thothie]

From the look on his face, Alpha Barney, unlike final Barney, knows what's about to go down.

 

[Srgnt Rehab]

And they never fixxered the lighting for water... Its the same water...

 

[TheOysterHippopotami]

Oh look! More models we can use!

 

[ceriux]

wrong its a different model format... it still has quite a few quake assets too.

 

[FER]

wrong its a different model format... it still has quite a few quake assets too.

Even MS3D can import obj files...

 

[Thothie]

wrong its a different model format... it still has quite a few quake assets too.

Not that it would stop us, but I think he was being facetious, with some vague dig at Little-G and his propensity for introducing ancient models and alpha fragments, like a crusading would-be mother, desperately trying to find a home for orphans...



Not that I approve of ancient materials going to waste, but...

 

[ceriux]

wrong its a different model format... it still has quite a few quake assets too.

Even MS3D can import obj files...

i havent been able to find a decompiler that can decompile them. they're coded differently and i believe they have a different version number. they do not match hl1.mdl ,hl2.mdl,nor quake.mdl . however... i was speaking to the guy who makes this program on irc and he said he may be able to add this model type to that program. the reason i/he knows that this model type matches neither is the way he was looking at the model and learning how it works is through a hex program.

also, they actually have two different model types they're using. one is boned and one isn't.

i was also able to find out that they matched neither because darkplaces runs both hl.mdl and quake.mdl i tried loading them into DP they do not load. tried qme,quark,jeds and even that program that supports all current.mdl formats and none could load it.

 

[Thothie]

Meh, throw me a model and I'll see what I can do for ya after the patch - just a matter of finding the bit with the vertex data and translating to an SMD format. Texture data usually has obvious headers. Little hex edit, little notepad S&R, and yer good.

Not that we'd actually use any of this ourselves, mind you.

 

[ceriux]

Meh, throw me a model and I'll see what I can do for ya after the patch - just a matter of finding the bit with the vertex data and translating to an SMD format. Texture data usually has obvious headers. Little hex edit, little notepad S&R, and yer good.

Not that we'd actually use any of this ourselves, mind you.

would you like the whole release? its like 104 mb i can PM it to you.

 

[Thothie]

Just a model would be fine, though I'm hoping to chain some patches out this year, and there's a lot of incoming maps, so I may wind up busy awhile after the patch too.