[EmoMark]

Just a short Idea i had while getting the newest Cryengine Realese. (Which currently work at my place due to a AMD Graphic bug mentioned in the forums -.-)

But what about a really big Map which is Half Life 2 related for a multiplayer HL2RP Game?
I mean i love gmod Roleplay specially hl2rp but i want something

A: Better Looking
B: Something new

So i thought what about the Cryengine?

So my question is.

Would that be Possible?
Who would help?
What would you help?

Greetings



(btw is there a way to change my username :'D i want finally my new one because this one i dont use for years now so dont pick on me for that)

[SteveUK]

You could, but it would be illegal.

[EmoMark]

Why should it be Illegal if we would recreate Models? Of course it wont be possible to use the same models / prefabs and such true that but the rest wont be such a problem would it. Because i have seen game recreations of other games in like the cryengine on moddb too

[SteveUK]

EmoMark posted:

Why should it be Illegal if we would recreate Models? Of course it wont be possible to use the same models / prefabs and such true that but the rest wont be such a problem would it. Because i have seen game recreations of other games in like the cryengine on moddb too

IP infringement is your path to a C&D.

[ROBO_DONUT]

You'd be pretty much fine as long as you didn't use HL content or the branding. AFAIK, it's OK to be Half-Life-esque.

[EmoMark]

ROBO_DONUT posted:

You'd be pretty much fine as long as you didn't use HL content or the branding. AFAIK, it's OK to be Half-Life-esque.

Thats what i thought i mean just saying it plays in the HL Universe short before the time of HL2 wouldnt be that "bad" and Valve would say its "ok" i guess as long theres no Profit or such.

[jack5500]

Then good luck finding a team out of moddellers, animators, mappers & programmers, that would spend their time on something liek that

[gparent]

Why would you make a brand new roleplaying game when you could just fire up The Specialists or Gmod and go at it already?

[Kamshak]

is it possible to convert source models into cry engine loadable ones? i mean like easily without many manual steps

[jack5500]

Kamshak posted:

is it possible to convert source models into cry engine loadable ones? i mean like easily without many manual steps

There would be no point to do that. When you just port them, you could leave the whole Cryengine part out and just make a mod (!). Oh and it would be illegal to port HL2 models over anyways( I assume you are talking about them, since they're essential to the half-life atmosphere)

[Kamshak]

well the point being better lighting and fps gameplay etc. also abilities for using the new cry engine 3

[Mr. Smartass]

The only way that something like this would be legal is if you made the game free, and then made it so that when it starts up, it somehow loads the half life models without actually copying them. Good luck with that.

[gparent]

Kamshak posted:

well the point being better lighting and fps gameplay etc. also abilities for using the new cry engine 3

I'm just saying, none of this helps role play in any way. Then again you might be used to TSRP post-1.5 / Gmod RP which revolves more around using plugins and interfaces than actually roleplaying anything.

[robmaister12]

Mr. Smartass posted:

The only way that something like this would be legal is if you made the game free, and then made it so that when it starts up, it somehow loads the half life models without actually copying them. Good luck with that.

Or you match the art style without using any of the actual HL2 art.

[Sam Za Nemesis]

Kamshak posted:

well the point being better lighting and fps gameplay etc. also abilities for using the new cry engine 3

If you have a Source License you could make it have the same lighting system of CryEngine 3 fairly easily by enabling deferred rendering and DX10

[EmoMark]

Its not only about the Lightning. I want something BIGGER i mean the source engine is really limited what it can run on map sizes and i have never seen a really "open world like" map for such a thing.

I "maybe" found a Programmer for it i will do some of the mapping. (Programmer is still thinking about it) Also most likely it will just take the art style like robmaister said without the hl2 content but a similar storyline. Still searching for help if anyone wants to ^^

[Ehmmett]

ill help im good at copy pasting source code so i can make it a lot like cry engin if u want

[jack5500]

EmoMark posted:

Its not only about the Lightning. I want something BIGGER i mean the source engine is really limited what it can run on map sizes and i have never seen a really "open world like" map for such a thing.

I "maybe" found a Programmer for it i will do some of the mapping. (Programmer is still thinking about it) Also most likely it will just take the art style like robmaister said without the hl2 content but a similar storyline. Still searching for help if anyone wants to ^^

Don't be stupid, make it as a sourcemod.
Lighting can be optimized with that, effects can be added in the shape of shaders and there are already a ton of brilliant maps out there. Work effort -80%

[Kamshak]

i'd like to see a nice cry mod too, sound really good, even if you leave it in the crysis universe

[EmoMark]

jack5500 posted:

Don't be stupid, make it as a sourcemod.
Lighting can be optimized with that, effects can be added in the shape of shaders and there are already a ton of brilliant maps out there. Work effort -80%

Then show me one good map where its possible to drop of some combines via helicopter or have walk areas for several minutes till you reach new buildings

[gparent]

Walking for several minutes - the pinnacle of role play. Any good role play maps can already do what you asked.

[jack5500]

EmoMark posted:

Then show me one good map where its possible to drop of some combines via helicopters or have walk areas for several minutes till you reach new buildings

You first arguement is just wrong in every aspect. You can drop combine everywhere. Helicopters and combines could be added via MapAdd (done in CSS SCI FI i.e.).
Walking a couple minutes?
http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=118911
http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=118348

[supersnail11]

EmoMark posted:

Then show me one good map where its possible to drop of some combines via helicopter or have walk areas for several minutes till you reach new buildings

Wow! You're right! All these years of playing Garry's Mod roleplay, I never realized the one thing that needed to be in the game was more walking!

[ahdge]

go give yourself a [sky]rimjob.