Are we on this topic again?
Well gee lets remake Farcry in X10 and Crysis in X9.(Note to self shouldn't make jokes only I can understand)
HL1 remake?Why on earth would you want to remake HL1 which is copyrighted to start with and you can't share with others.
Half the forum members barely completes a game or half doesn't even use light mapping.So it's fair to say half the users will fail to even attempt remaking anything.
However it can be done to some extent but performance wise the engine will choke before your even half way done the scripting required is insane.
The level designing is simple at best understanding the limitation
of it is whats required...
Quote: "A guy working at Valve told a friend of mine that they deliberately made Source hard to use so that everyone else at Valve would understand how important the programmers are Having worked on two HL2 total conversions I find this all too easy to believe. But even if I hate Source it is also still possible to make great games with it. I wouldn't go big with FPSC - I would choose another engine from the start."
And you believe this guy? Seriously internal tools seem hard to understand and the inner workings is kept to a minimal level designers don't have time to ask what this function does or that
The work relationship between a level designer and programmer is close.Tools are made based on what level designers want the implementation of said tool or feature is left to the programmer
and minimalistic approach is used without any additional bells and whistles which the level designer does not use or want is not implemented tools however has to be created in such away to allow
longevity as well as easy migration to other projects should the need arise.
Quote: "Take a look at many modern engines (Unity is a prime example) and you can now have models drag-and-dropped into the game - you can even have your artist edit its textures or animations at runtime while a tester plays the game and getting the updates instantly! Makes Source look completely obsolete."
Another brainless comment.This has been happening for years.Just also show how little you really understand source.
Quote: "I have worked with both FPSC X9/X10 and HL2 Source and even though Source has many features it's also a b*tch you constantly want to k*ll. Source/Hammer is designed in a way engines where made 10 years ago when it was ok that a programmer was needed to be ever-present when doing even simple things like importing new models to the engine. It takes several command line tools and a lot of knowledge to import an animated model into Source."
I shouldn't have to mention another brainless comment.Source have developed a tool that allows realistic lip syncing with out having to reanimate the model.Source has developed some of the best tools around and the main reason why it's still making money by selling these tools to other developers
Hammer editor is at best what I like to call a level designing heaven the tool as been created to allow easy manipulation
as well as flexibility.
You are seriously irritating me with senseless remarks.It is a known fact that there isn't anything like a true level designer some one that just makes the levels.What we have today is a Hybrid
level designer companies require programming knowledge as well as level designing skills some require modeling as well as texturing skills.Level designers as such 99% of the time do their own scripting on a system like c-script that has been developed by programmers.Which are still that programmers for now.
Programmers on the other hand do not really work on the projects till completion their work is at the beginning of a project making tools or engines ect.They are called on when required to fix a critical bugs.Programmers can be required to work on other areas of the project.
The level designers as such have been dead for nearly 15years or more and will likely change and evolve in future.
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