The Future of CS Movies?

[CSN NewsBot]

You may remember last year's ground breaking CS movie Militia2, well the potential future of in-game films is looking even more exciting with this news from HalfLife2Files. A guy named Pendragon sent a question to Gabe Newell regarding the Half-Life 2 engine's ability to render movies:

I was curious about the potential of the HL2 editing suite and the Source engine. If a team was able to create sets and characters and script the action, etc. would the Source engine be able to render this as a movie? If so, would it be possible to set it so that Source renders it not in realtime but at whatever rate is needed to achieve a set level of detail? I was inspired by part of the E3 demo video that the Source engine might be an ideal platform for CG videos, sort of like a garage version of Pixar.



Gabe Newell: Yes you can set the framerate to whatever rate you want and render frames accordingly.

So assuming that Counter-Strike one day makes it onto the half-life 2 engine, your CS videos will only be limited by your imagination.

[Noldster]

when CS 2.0 hits, will it use HL2 new updated engine?

[FLeK0]

hi Mr-Shag.

this is your 1st news post here, right?

3rd new guy today, woot



yeah, we will make great movies with teh new tools.

Noldster wrote..

when CS 2.0 hits, will it use HL2 new updated engine?

when it hits. it will use the source engine. but first we will play with 1.7 and 1.8 on the good old HL engine.

[tspoon1066]

That would be amazing, imagine the militia movies in decent quality with decent physics.



Wowzers.

Noldster wrote..

when CS 2.0 hits, will it use HL2 new updated engine?

Yes, and flying cars will be the norm and the world will be powered by sausage fuelled power stations.

(CS2 is a long way off in other words)

[Mr-Shag]

FLeK0 wrote..

hi Mr-Shag.

this is your 1st news post here, right?

Yes, it's my first day go easy on me.

[[SXE]Sgt. Pepper]

lol shame we gotta wait till another bloody 100 years for CS2, and if its made by the newbies at valve then im not interested

[Simplex]

Mr-Shag wrote..

Yes, it's my first day go easy on me.

Then real quick, before anyone else notices, go proofread your post and fix it.

[DarkViper311]

Simplex wrote..

Then real quick, before anyone else notices, go proofread your post and fix it.

Yes.Typos ahoy.

[LiK]

that would neat, can't wait to see what people make

[f00kie]

A guy named Pendragon but a question to Gabe Newell regarding the half-life 2 soruce engine's ability to render movies, this is what he asked:

The whole sentence needs some work.

[Doodleman3]

[SXE]Sgt. Pepper wrote..

if its made by the newbies at valve then im not interested

Minh Le himself is in charge of this Valve Software project.



Valve's money + Gooseman's skill = Counter-Strike 2.

[[SXE]Sgt. Pepper]

Doodleman3 wrote..

Valve's money + Gooseman's skill = Counter-Strike 2.

Aslong as Gooseman and Cliffe do the business then thats fine by me

[Pharlap]

Doodleman3 wrote..

Minh Le himself is in charge of this Valve Software project.



Valve's money + Gooseman's skill = Counter-Strike 2.

i doubt gooseman had real 'skill' making CS, he just got lucky, in the right place at the right time, imho.

LiK wrote..

that would neat, can't wait to see what people make

[WooFerPPK]

Pharlap wrote..

i doubt gooseman had real 'skill' making CS, he just got lucky, in the right place at the right time, imho.

very lucky, when i first played it in beta 1 i thought it was crap

i was wrong....

[Simplex]

Come on, brit.

A guy named Pendragon asked a question to Gabe Newell regarding the half-life 2 soruce engine's ability to render movies, this is what he asked

Even if you don't capitalize Half-Life 2's Source engine, at least spell it correctly.