Half Life 2 Cel-Shaded.

[imported_Salvatore]

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Found them on a Half Life 2 forum.

 

[thelanx]

That's pretty sweet. Is this a mod or something?

 

[KoolDrew]

Ya eactly what is it? Is it a mod or just screenshots someone edited in Photoshop?

 

[UnklSnappy]

It's a bonus effect included in the HDR Bloom mod.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: UnklSnappy
It's a bonus effect included in the HDR Bloom mod.

Yep
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1529587&enterthread=y

 

[xSkyDrAx]

The HDR Bloom mod looks nice but I think the Cel Shaded mod looks like crap.

 

[imported_Salvatore]

The person who cel-shaded the game says he merely replaced a shader. I'll get you a link.

TEXT W/ LINK TO MOD

 

[MatthewF01]

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/HalfLife_2_R8_HDR_Bloom_MiniMod;38224


6) Any thing else I should know about?
Well there is one more bonus effect included. mat_R8Illustration which defaults to 0=off. 1 turns on a shader that mimics a cool Photoshop plug-in.

 

[Jeff7]

I know that with Radeon 9700/9800, and probably others, in the 3D properties tab, under Display Properties, click on Custom, then the Smartshader Effects tab - B&W, Classic, Inverse Color, Porthole, RGB Cycle, and Stylize-B&W are the options you can choose from. Sounds like it shouldn't be too awful difficult then to add or change around other shaders.

 

[notfred]

It looks like crap. I was expecting something that looked like Zelda:Windwaker.

 

[Lonyo]

Err, surely you would expect something which looks like XIII (the only Cel shaded game I can think of)?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

It doesn't really look cel shaded - it just looks like a weird ugly Photoshop filter.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: DonVito
It doesn't really look cel shaded - it just looks like a weird ugly Photoshop filter.

I agree, it looks sort of like a "photo negative" effect, combined with color-depth-reduction effect or something, not exactly quite like the "cel-shaded" video games that I've seen. (Although I've not played too many of them, and I don't really care for that style myself.)

 

[imported_Salvatore]

Originally posted by: DonVito
It doesn't really look cel shaded - it just looks like a weird ugly Photoshop filter.

Really? Even the first few? I agree, the last few just look like HDR only, but the first few, in my opinion, are perfect examples of cel-shading. I guess we have different standards.

 

[Bar81]

If you guys actually read the notes you would see the author claims it's a photoshop plug-in type effect

 

[gorcorps]

this doesnt look great, but jesus, it wasnt built for cell shaded graphics. I think it looks much better than that pos cellshaded mod they had for doom3.

 

[Malak]

You know, it looks more like a photoshop filter than cel-shaded. XIII was cel-shaded, there's a HUGE difference. Not a matter of standards, just a matter of what is and isn't. He even says it's a photoshop filter, and if you use photoshop you'd know it.