Another Half-Life 2 movie, Trap Town. Again, nothing that hasn't been seen before but worth a look - shows off the scene from the E3 presentation where Gordon is using the magic picker-upper device and throwing stuff around.

cool, cant wait to see this game. nfi when it will be out though, not this year i bet

Last I heard it was September 30th of this year.

When someone confronted a member of Valve asking why some stores are
advertising a release date of December, he mentioned that he had no
idea where stores get their release dates from, and that Valve has not
changed their release plans.

So yeah :)

[Edit]: I would have put the link to my source, but the site can't be resolved at the moment.

here's somthing :D
i fished it up snooping around on the hl2 forums :D http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3071

A recent post in the Half-Life 2 forums questioning the possibility of full screen anti aliasing with Half-Life 2, especially on Nvidia GeForce FX graphics cards, has caused many gamer's a headache. Gabe Newell, Valve Software's managing director, now posted more details on the matter:

Since people seem to be hyperventilating over the anti-aliasing issue, I thought I'd update everyone.


1) How bad is the problem?

With current multi-sample implementations of anti-aliasing, you may sample texels outside of the polygon boundary, which may result in sampling light maps from other polygons. This has always been a problem. This is a problem with Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3, Daikatana, Sin, Elite Force, Half-Life, Counter-Strike on the X-Box, or any game that uses packed lightmaps with multi-sample anti-aliasing.

You would see these artifacts on polygon boundaries where the wrong lightmap is being sampled. It will look like a bright or dark line on the edge of a polygon. Gary McTaggart brought this up in an email because he is being pretty hardcore about graphics quality right now. This is not a new problem. If you've run a game that uses lightmaps with anti-aliasing turned on, then you've been seeing these artifacts the whole time. Artifacts may show up more frequently in Half-Life 2 simply because we've eliminated lots of other artifacts, and because we have a lot of variation in scene lighting due to our art direction. To put this in perspective, not doing tri-linear filtering on mipmaps is a lot worse.

You forgot to mention

Between these two approaches, multi-sample anti-aliasing artifacts should be a non-issue for any DX9-level hardware running Pixel Shader 2.0.

Meaning if you got a geforce FX you got no problemo!

omg buy a radeon so doom3 runs better

omg buy an fx so hl2 runs better

omg

bah

back on track!

the movie rocks

HL2 is going to be a CAINER game, can't wait!!

omg buy an fx so hl2 runs better

I'm confused now, wasn't it the nvidia cards that were going to have problems and the ati cards were going to run it fine? Either way, its all gay.

did you not read the bit Thundercracker quoted!!

dx9 IS FINE (apparently)

cool, cant wait to see this game. nfi when it will be out though, not this year i bet

yeah, i heard it was in sep too!

they porbly dont know if they can hit all these christmas dates.. its like Anti-trust GOOOOO MILOOOOO cept dont kill nvidea :\

What were the machines that it was running on for that video?

dont know, maybe dual cpu setups??