Half Life 2 Cinematic Mod v7

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/;88111

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havocgeneral (2008-03-23)

Readme File:

FAKEFACTORY CINEMATIC MOD V7 FULL
Build 7.0HDR (RC1)
for Half-Life 2 / Half-Life 2: Episode One / Half-Life 2: Episode Two

TO PLAY THIS MOD, YOU MUST OWN HALF-LIFE 2 / EPISODE ONE / EPISODE TWO FULLY INSTALLED AND UNLOCKED!

Remember to activate "High Quality" graphic settings in the options dialog.

PURPOSE OF THIS MOD:

- Raise the quite outdated graphical appearance to a state-of-the-art level
- Give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and minatory look
- Complement the atmosphere with a emotional cinematic music soundtrack, that fits the action on the screen
- Replace the low-resolution textures with high resolution counterparts and more detailed environments (hires melones!)
- Complement the storyline with the unused content from the original games
- Refresh the look and feel with optional new HD models
- Add more replay-value
CHANGES SINCE CM 4/5/6:

- The first FINAL Alyx Hires models
- Reworked sounds and music
- Almost all textures reworked or updated
- Added Hires-Detail-Overlays
- Added HDR to HL2 (See below)
- Fixed two potential crash-bugs
- One pack for all episodes
HDR for HL2

Not all HL2 maps are true HDR, because not all sources are available. For all other maps i used a technique, that i call "Entity injection". Technically i've used clientcommand entities and tonemapcontrollers to achieve a hdr-like type of blooming on those maps. This type of bloom is much more realistic than the old bloom mini-mod, because the effect is controllable inside the map for different settings at certain locations. You can call it HDR V0.5 or Bloom V2. Its some kind of super-enhanced bloom that gives a near-HDR look on the old HL2 maps. Some of the map-settings aren't final (i'm still at the fine-tuning phase)
HDR AND THE OLD VALVE MODELS:

With HDR enabled in HL2 some of the faces of the OLD ORIGINAL VALVE CIVILIAN models are appearing too bright sometimes. This little glitch will be fixed with the next version. The Hires models faces are looking right.
CHARACTER PIMPER:

By default most of the optional HD-models are disabled. You can use the "Character Pimper" to switch between HD models and original VALVE models.
The Alyx HD-model was built from scratch, all other models are based on massive modified POSER7 models and compiled with a rewritten studiocompiler, that is allowing a much higher polycount than VALVE's original compiler. The facial animations were build with 3DS MAX and exported with Cannonfodders VTA -exporter.
USING OLD CM6.x Alyx Hires models in this version

The V7 Alyx models are completely reworked with enhanced skeleton and facial animations. The older CM6 models are not longer used. If you want the older models from your CM6 installation, make a copy of the CM6 Characterpimper "repository" folder and the CM6 "hl2\materials\models\Adriana" folder before you uninstall it.
After installation of CM7 is completed, you can copy the old content to the V7 directory, BUT DON'T OVERWRITE V7 FILES! I strongly recommend to use the new CM7 models. They are optimized for the Orangebox engine. I will release recompiled V6 models as a update-patch in the near future.
SOUND DROPS OR CRACKLING:

If sound crackles occures, you can fix this by setting the snd_mixahead value in the autoexec's of CM's subdirectories. You will find the autoexec.cfg in the:
FAKEFACTORY_CM\hl2\cfg
FAKEFACTORY_CMEP1\ep1\cfg
FAKEFACTORY_CMEP2\ep2\cfg
directories. Try different value like snd_mixahead "0.2" o

Zeke129 (2008-03-26)

Thanks for making a torrent of this. We definitely need some more seeders though!

buner (2008-04-03)

question is, how to use it, none of the releases seem to work with it.

rodox444 (2008-10-21)

Hi, does anyone knows how to install this on a pirated version of half life 2, like without having to install steam?