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@@melc311 Thanx. And yes... They follow the strider. Kind of got the idea from War of the Worlds.

@@hman2875 think of my poor PC before mentioning Cycles :P It will take a very long time to render these in Cycles unfortunately. I tired it after optimization and it takes ages.

​@@simongravel7407 This is actually just one animation set tied to the armature of each of the striders with some offset so they don't walk in sync. I think it's the WalkN animation. You'll notice that it's the only animation playing and the video cuts before they stop or go into an idle animation. I too still have to figure out how to properly blend the animations from one set to another, because in the project I'm currently working on I want Striders climbing down into the canals of Water Hazard.

@chrizandriroth101 Thank you for the tip! Yeah, I definitely understand the challenge of doing something with the other animations. I don't know if they're bugged out or if Valve wrote some script which calls on the right anims depending on context.

@simongravel7407 Source kind of handles the blend between animations automatically. Source 2 has an amazing system as well to blend animations. Still way above my knowledge and skills at the moment.

Thanx

You are correct... there's no motion blur in any of the animations. Reason is I wanted a nice crisp image to match the game, but also because I still don't fully understand implementing it correctly, so I just left it. I played around with the settings to test it but wasn't satisfied. I still have to watch some tutorials on it. I'm still literally learning as I work on these projects :)

@@chrizandriroth101 It's great! Good luck with it

Thank you... Each scene was rendered in one go actually. I still have to learn to render in objects and layers by passes the more complicated I am now starting to create scenes. On average, it took between 6-14sec to render each frame and average 3-6 hours depending on the complexity of the scene on my 3070ti. I do a lot of optimization to ensure faster render times. That's why I'm also a big fan of Eevee because you're still able to render complicated scenes on moderate hardware and it still maintains that 'gaming' look.

@@chrizandriroth101 Yes, with the latest updates Eevee wants to use more and more often!

Thank you for noticing that and the compliment. Creating the sounds for these scenes, especially the trains, is a lot of fun, and from the beginning I wanted two sets of Razor Train consists together and I knew the sound would work perfectly. Even little details in the previous scene with the Razor Train up close I synced the sound of the wheels as they moved over the joint of the rails and made sure the train sounded and felt powerful.

@@SOLOG-m4y Thank you!

@@bloomingpain-flower7074 Actually no. It's the striders from HLA. I think the way the sunlight falls doesn't clearly show their HLA colors.

@@davibaggicorreia Thank you! To me that's the best compliment

@@chrizandriroth101 nope

I saw him on his way into the station, but i've yet to find the second.

found the second but I won't tell

Thank you... I am already well into the next project and it's more ambitious than these ones. You kind of play the character of a scanner floating around the first map of Water Hazard seeing the aftermath of Gordon that passed through there moments earlier.

@@chrizandriroth101 That's a great idea! Looking forward to seeing it, good luck!!

I am still learning and improving my skills with animations. Even after importing the default animations, you still have some work to do to 'connect' the different sets of animations. The next scene I'm working on I'm adding Civil Protection, so I hope I nail it.

The Scanner in the first scene actually blinds you. I didn't want to overdo it with the scanner blinding you again the second time. 🙂

@chrizandriroth101 omg, im literally blind. So sorry about that 😭

In the original game you see them flocking out of the Citdael so I thought that after a while you should see them moving over you to the rest of the city. Glad you liked it.

I actually wanted to improve the cables, especially where they connect with the Citadel but found it unnecessary when you only see the Citadel in the distance for most of the renders. I wasn't planning on rendering up close like this and kind of forgot about it.

The 2000's era of gaming was my favorite and I'm glad it feels like a 2000's era. That idea of the scanner kind of requesting you to click 'load game' is kind of cute and nice. Or if it hovered next to the main menu and kind of followed your cursor as you explored the main menu and clicked on things.

That would be nice... but I have no idea if it is at all possible to mod this in as a video playing in the background of the main menu in the game.

I actually played around with rendering it in Cycles, but it was going to take much too long to render. Plus, I wanted to keep the render close to the look of the Source Engine and Eevee was a good choice for that.

City 17's atmosphere has always been 'oddly peaceful' to be. Maybe that's why I love it so much.

Thank you very much. I've always seen the scanner as somewhat sentient.

What do you mean exactly?

@@chrizandriroth101 the mods

​@@Turtle_guy1131bro it's Blender

@@Turtle_guy1131 For this 3D render I mainly used converted Half-Life Alyx assets and remade assets from the community found on Gamebanana.

@ ok ty

Thank you very much! Importing the decompiled maps through an addon for Blender called Plumber basically imports everything (light sources, models, overlays, hdri, etc) and even the correct textures and their coordinates. So, I know exactly where what is when starting the scene. Then I start decompiling models with Crowbar and importing them through Source Tools for Blender one by one to replace the original ones. Mostly models from HL2 Remade Assets and Alyx. Then the textures I convert to tga or png and import them. That can take some time. Most of the time goes into optimizing the map and imported models, adding geometry, improving original models that I can find no replacement for, turning basic brushes into detailed custom models (like the rooftiles, etc).