#HALF LIFE 2 GIF SOFTWARE#

However, we've been implementing a lot of our own sub-systems (animation, AI, GL and software renderer), so about 75 per cent of the engine is our own code. This would mean you're ignoring Newell's comment: I'd probably say that most of ID's OpenGL rendering code stayed. The G400 MAX was the most difficult to tune for, the 3dfx cards work best with the WickedGL miniGL driver, and the GeForce 2 Ultra requires setting 'Buffer Flipping Mode in the OpenGL tab of the NVIDIA control panel to 'Block Transfer'' (from the GeForce FAQ). I've run Half-Life with hardware acceleration a V2, V2 SLI rig, V3-2000, V5-5500, Matrox G400 MAX, and GeForce 2 Ultra. It can take some tweaking to get things just right, but it looks better under OpenGL than under D3D.

However, we've been implementing a lot of our own sub-systems (animation, AI, GL and software renderer), so about 75 per cent of the engine is our own code.ДЇor me, Half-Life has always run better under OpenGL. We pick and choose from that source base depending on what we are trying to do. We have the source code to the original DOS Quake, Win Quake, GL Quake, Quake World, Quake II, and all of the various patches. Gabe Newell: Actually we have a licence to the Quake II engine. GameSpot: You originally licensed the classic Quake engine but preferred to roll your own features into Half-Life's engine rather than license Quake II. It was 75% Valve at release, and I'd bet it's gotten even further from id's base since release: Half-Life's code base is not strictly Q2.

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