- tex mex matt
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Posted by: Shishka
Posted by: tex mex matt
I was almost positive yall were gonna put real time lights back in and all that stuff, I dont see why this wouldnt have been the perfect time to throw all that old stuff back in (you still have a copy of the old engine dont you?) I mean sure it would take a ton of recalibrating and the such, but I figured that would be your "project", guess not. It really is a shame though that halo 2 had so much more to it that no one will ever know about (to its full extent).
Cool update, I'm a little dissapointed I was wrong though.
Hm, but Halo 2 HAS dynamic lights. Both in multiplayer and single player. If you were expecting the lightmaps to be replaced entirely by dynamic lighting, though, I'm not sure why you thought that would happen.
If I'm not mistaken, the old E3 2003 demo had dynamic lights all the time (I think). And just to clarify now, dynamic lights is like the lights that come from the lights in Zanzibar (from the hanging lamps) and in the level "Oracle", they are "real time" from what I understand, and display the shadow exactly as if it was under a real light. (correct me if I am wrong here). The reason why I thought this would happen was because of the Zanzibar Beach Video from the Multiplayer Map Pack that had dynamic lighting all the time, sorta like the sun was a giant light from Zanzibar. If I'm not mistaken, they took this out originally because it was to much for a 64mb xbox to handle (thats why in the E3 demo they used dev kits with 128mb RAM among other reasons). I also heard rumors of them actually having a xbox light on fire because they tried to make it run with this lighting and the thing just overloaded. So it made sense if they were gonna have to go back, and patch the game to get it to work on the xbox 360, then why not patch every level and other necessary code to work with dynamic lights in all areas. Since they now had a much more powerful system and were working on a project (close to right before xbox 360 was released and right after the announcement of backwards compatibility) it seemed to me like a very possible fit.
Frankie If you can confirm I was right about my facts it would be much appreciated.... Also would like to know if that rumor is true.
[Edited on 11/9/2005]