On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:34:23 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>  I thought all games used per-pixel lighting now?
>
> Apparently HL2 doesn't.

Yes, it does.


> (They've upgraded the Source engine several times since then, so maybe  
> it does now. I doubt it.)

It did from the start, just like pretty much every other game from the  
last five years.


> Look at the belt. It's circular. Ever tried drawing a circle using  
> pencil and paper? (Hint: It's physically impossible.) Sure, you can move  
> the verticies around after you've drawn them. But it would still be  
> hopelessly hard to arrange 80 points into a near-perfect curve like that.

Do you seriously believe that the modeling software does not help you  
place things on a circle?


> And that's just making the outline; next you have to somehow model the  
> height of the belt, not to mention its thickness.

Those are fairly trivial operations.


> Impossibility upon impossibility.

You use that word a lot, but I do not think you know what it means.


> Also... no triangles. Only quadrilaterals, as far as I can tell.

Most modelers these days can handle quads, and indeed prefer them over  
triangles.



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