I bring you... the Xen Levels in Black Mesa

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#281

hey can maybe i can helpa about some textures in xen. ive found HD textures from Half life gold im gonna download it, convert detailed textures to vtf and create thir normals.
and… can i use gimp for this, im using it for first time so i dnot know how well it is. XD

damn… looks like half life gold download mirors are broken… im not givin up

did it! dowloading!!! XD

hey me again. hey guys im sorry if im so boring and im posting so many text but ive got an idea. for textures you dont have you can use the old ones, i mean you can add them sharpnes, normals and mix them with transperent detail.

#282

Bump!

#283

I plucked up courage and have recently decided to end their own Xen maps. Below you can see screenshots of what I could do.

On the first map xen_c4a1 been improved geometry of the Big Island in the middle of the map.


I am very happy that I learned to do the cave on the map with displacement, as I could not find on the Internet are no normal lessons of

their creation.



But the maps Xen is not much with added displacement.


You can see on the maps a reduced in size model Manta. I spent quite a few efforts that-be to reduce this model. I am glad that I managed

to do.


I also finish a textures and is now on the maps Xen does not use the original Half-Life textures.


However, the maps use some skyboxes, sprites and sounds from Half-Life. Are also used of Half-Life model flashlight, tree, boid and

Nihilanth. I think it’s bad, but I’m not able to fix it all.

#284







I decided try to make a the cave more complicated using displacement, it is a very long and hard. At least I hope it looks good.

Pay attention to that Nihilanth here is created have changed between Half-Life. You see that directly there is a stream of the crystals

energy to the head Nihilanth.



I hope google translate properly convey the meaning of what I wanted to say. At the moment I am preparing version 0.1 (alpha) Xen as a mod for Black Mesa. Well, I will soon post it to download.

#285

I thought this was dead but…
It looks ultra-good! The caves look more awesome with that phong. Anyway what about Gonarch, I didn’t see her here.

It will look even better if the skyboxes have better HDR in it.

The water looks kinda more reddish than the original and even HL: Source.

Does nihilanth act the same like HL or better, or worse?
The final screenshot, where’s that?

#286

My goodness… that looks amazing! I would play that!

Except I don’t have Half Life: Source… only original GoldSource version. Sads. :frowning:

#287

Holy shit

#288

This is not for Half-Life Source this is for Black Mesa. :wink:

#289

Yes, but you need Half Life Source to port to Black Mesa. Says so in the first post~

Well, maybe not what vlad did, but as far as what king did goes, yeah…

#290

Whoa, that looks great. That bright red liquid is eerie as Hell.

#291

Really cool stuff you did there, vlad!
Have you already implemented the AI of the trees and tentacles? I had done the tree AI for c4a1b but then stopped development in december…
If you want, I can make a tree prefab that includes all the logic and the model.

#292

ysrael214
Unfortunately gonarch until no and it is not implemented. I think that here Nihilanth made ​​worse than Half-life Nihilanth. The first screenshot is just Nihilanth in the normal state, and the second is his death.

mbit
I implemented ai tree in Hammer editor. But I did not touch tentacles, I just put them in a place where they should be. They are blunt in Xen. And it is very strange to behave. It would be good if you can make them normal, because I do not know how to make the normal conduct.

#293

When will be the alpha release? Too bad no gonarch though.

#294

You’re awesome.

I mean, it totally isn’t in line with my original “ironically crap graphics” mentality, but it’s still awesome nonetheless. :slight_smile:

#295

Does Nihilanth still teleport you?

#296

Vlad don’t get me wrong but after seeing those screenshots I love you. Not in gayish way but I love you.

Few questions :

  • do you have release date already in your mind ?
  • will you create moddb page for it ?
  • will gonarch be added in future releases ?
  • is it still synchronized with latest surface tension uncut scenes.image ?
  • in mbit version of interloper I had strange issues and errors which closed my game, are you using his maps ? If so, did you fix those glitches ?
  • do you plan on making hd skybox for gman sequence and interloper (I mean screenshot with not hd skybox )
  • does nihilanth has all the same abilities he had in half life ?
  • What about scientists corpses ? Do they appear in your map or they are still charple models ?

No need to anwser them all if you do not wish :stuck_out_tongue:

#297

Dude… you were supposed to do a bad job.

#298

ahahahahaaha

#299

@vlad: I tried to get the tentacles right, when I edited c4a1b back in december. The npc_tentacle entity is unusable there. You will have to use the model on a prop_dynamic and do the animations, AI and player damage by means of entity logic. I stopped development at about the time when I realized this. Good luck.

#300

@vlad16051997 Igitt!

I find Xen maps bit ugly.
I don’t like because Xen World for Black Mesa : Source doesn’t get better.

My belly hurts because same screenshots make me sick. :frowning:
PLEASE CHANGE ANOTHER WORLD. I vomit now.

Holy shit!
@Bloodshot, yes my belly hurts :frowning: Because Xen World for Source-Engine doesn’t like better :frowning:

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