Glass
 

Glass is good Glass is nice... Glass is the spice of life........

ok lies but nm that :) does anyone know what glass will be like in game Will it be like HL1 glass or cool as fk like Red Factions glass and have holes in it before it brakes? any help would be nice thanks.

you know despite the crude mature of the question thats a good point. Will glass be affected by physics as well? does it fragment or stay solid.... someone email gabe.

...or you can just wait and see ;)

We don't know yet. I don't expect it to be really special, it takes heaps of cpu power to render realistic glass.. and even more to render realistic breaking glass.

I reckon if will fragment, but only if its programmed to. Kinda like the wood.

Okay, it's HL2.... it bound to have glass. Glass is quite a big part in alot of games (shooting through it etc). Does HL2 have the most amazing features of any game ever? Do you think they've overlooked something as big a glass?





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It'll be the daddy of glass. Glass I'd want in my house :-)

Check out the Bugbait video and watch the camera-guns shoot the bulletproof glass.

email sent......shame on me:bonce:

You need to calm down. The game is out soon (probably). Wait and see. :)

what about traptown, after the door blocking, he walks up the stairs looks out the window and... smash! little bits of glass falling about everywhere.

personally i diddnt think that looked quite good, the vullet holes in the glass were all overlapping.

there were two different types of glass shown in the vids. The first one was the traptown video where the player is inside the bulding. there are stairs next to him and a combine soldier at the top of the stairs. The soldier shoots out the window that player is standing next to and the glass fragments then falls in a shower of little pieces. Another example of the shattering glass is the bugbait video where he is standing near the entrance to the washing room(the room with all the washing machines) he shoots out a window above and uses a pheremone bomb to summon some ant lions. I think that physics does take some part in the breaking of glass. If you notice how the glass falls and hits the floor is the bugbait video.



The second type of glass/window is aslo in the bugbait vid. The part where there are two sentry turrets guarding the doorway. the turrets shoot at the player but the player ducks back behind the corner. The turrets shoot and hit the glass but it does not shatter or fragment, it only displays bullet holes.

The bugbait glass and traptown glass are different. Traptown looks much worse if you look at it closely. So which one is reflective of the final build?

Chaser had cool glass.