The Hl2 G-man Video
<div class="IPBDescription">Rendered or Captured?</div> I couldn't get Steam to work with the HL Videos section, so i downloaded a Binkplayer.exe file of the HL2 G-Man video, and i must say that it looks REALLY REALLY clean and clear. Almost as if my computer was rendering it by itself.... Wait, was that what happened?
I see jaggies on this video, and i see the white pixels happening at the seams at the neck of the G-Man. Thats what leads me to believe that it is actually being RENDERED, and isn't just a screencapture of it happening.
However, it could just be a REALLY REALLY clean and hi-rez video. But i doubt this, the file is only 70 megs big. That is enough space for the G-Man's speech segments, the model, and the lighting system.
70 megs isnt enough for a video of that length with that INSANELY high-quality capture....
But that's what i think. Anyone else got any suggestions?
LM
<span style='color:white'>[edit]</span>Another thing that seems to suggest to me that it is a render is that:
A: It came in an .exe file
and B: I was looking at my performance tab in the Ctrl-Alt-Del menu with XP, and not only does the video use up a lot of the processor runtime, but it also creates a spike in my video card activity.
Or is that just the downloads i had running?
LM<span style='color:white'>[/edit]
The 'edit' button - there for a reason.</span>
I see jaggies on this video, and i see the white pixels happening at the seams at the neck of the G-Man. Thats what leads me to believe that it is actually being RENDERED, and isn't just a screencapture of it happening.
However, it could just be a REALLY REALLY clean and hi-rez video. But i doubt this, the file is only 70 megs big. That is enough space for the G-Man's speech segments, the model, and the lighting system.
70 megs isnt enough for a video of that length with that INSANELY high-quality capture....
But that's what i think. Anyone else got any suggestions?
LM
<span style='color:white'>[edit]</span>Another thing that seems to suggest to me that it is a render is that:
A: It came in an .exe file
and B: I was looking at my performance tab in the Ctrl-Alt-Del menu with XP, and not only does the video use up a lot of the processor runtime, but it also creates a spike in my video card activity.
Or is that just the downloads i had running?
LM<span style='color:white'>[/edit]
The 'edit' button - there for a reason.</span>
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I went into my Geforce 3's menu under the advanced desktop tab and turned up the Anisotropic Filtering to 8x and my Antialiasing up to 4x....
Now, when i run Quake 3 or HL with these options, i see the jaggie lines blurr onscreen as stuff renders and another thing: its very subtle, but there is a faint refresh-scanning delay going on sometimes when things rotate very fast and the lines stagger across the screen in a vertical refreshing pattern... like my monitor refresh rate is low.
This happens in the HL2 G-man video when i look at it, but when i turn the filtering OFF on my video card, it disappears. The Antialiasing didnt clear up any of the jaggies in the video, but it did display a faint refresh pattern that i get in Q3 and HL.
The more i look at it, the more i believe that it is rendered.
LM
The only problem with that is that i've seen Bink Player <i>render</i> things, and i've seen it <i>display</i> movies.
LM
I've also run a copy of Q3 in the background with a couple bots playing around in True Combat, minimized it, and ran the HL2 G-Man video... Guess what? Low framerate.
I don't trust you people. How can a video of such high quality be only a 70 meg file?
LM
is it better quality then the 500 meg on on fileplanet?
I've also run a copy of Q3 in the background with a couple bots playing around in True Combat, minimized it, and ran the HL2 G-Man video... Guess what? Low framerate.
I don't trust you people. How can a video of such high quality be only a 70 meg file?
LM <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
My computer isn't horrible, but I know people who have horrible comps ;P
As for running Q3 minimized, try watching a high res avi or a dvd. You'll get the same results.
It is a video, and decompressing video takes up CPU/GPU performance, that's why it lags while playing Q3, and that's why really old puters have probs with playing DivX and similar codecs.
As for your framerates going down when running Q3 with bots in the background. Er, what did you expect, exactly, ever thought that it was Quake3 lagging your machine?