#Half life 1 texture reader code
#Half life 1 texture reader download

Regarding the Quake2 engine that loads Q3 maps, QFusion, I speak with the author (vic) of that in IRC regularly, and it was not a simple change at all.ĭoom3s model format is known as MD5 (not to be confused with the MD5 hash algorithm), and is a text-based skeletal model format. Quake3s is another sizable change, introducing different surface types (patches, triangle soups, etc), shader fields, light grids, etc. Quake2s are quite a large change, introducing area-portals, not storing texture coordinates but rather positioning info, etc. Quake1 and Halflifes BSP formats are near identical (the biggest difference being the lightmap colour depth). The coloured lighting component is an easy addition to the stock Q1 compile tools, they wouldnt have needed the Q2 tools for that.Īs for BSPs being just about the same for each version, whilst some aspects of that is true, there are some major differences between them, which is why I said they were very different. They used the radiosity feature from Q2’s compile tools for the lighting. Valve did have a licensed copy of the Q2 source as well, from what I remember, however Halflife itself is a largely modified Quake1 engine. If I remember correctly it’s only like one maybe two things at the most that is slightly different. In addition to being able to create and edit existing WADs for both Quake and Half-Life, Wally is also an image editor, letting you do brightness, contrast, sharpening, noise adjustment, blurring, image resizing and rotating, image offset, or just plain drawing on your textures with an airbrush. Also I don’t think there is much different about quake 1 and quake 2 bsps. AW: Half Life: HD-Grafik- und Textur-Mod für den Klassiker von Valve Hallo zusammen, nach 13 Jahren komme ich heute auf die Idee, mal wieder das ganze Half Life durchzuspielen. So this way you would know exactly how the data is stored.

#Half life 1 texture reader download

You could download the source to the half life map comile tools and look at how they save all the data. Again I don’t remember if source was there though. I downloaded it before and it worked pretty good. They said something like, thanks to the quake 2 engine, we now have colored lighting and here is a shot. Go to your Half-Life/valve directory - (typically its in SteamsteamappscommonHalf-Lifevalve) 2. Simply open up the in-game console and enter GLtexturemode GLNearest. I also remember in this magazine article that they had some screenshots of the colored lighting thanks to the quake 2 engine. Removing texture filtering from your current play session.

#Half life 1 texture reader code

I read in a magazine a long time ago that valve said they went to the quake 2 engine code base for Half-Life so it DOES use the quake 2 engine, which uses the quake 1 engine so really you can say both I guess.

The Quake 2 engine is based off the Quake 1 engine for one, keep that in mind.