Valve showcase HDR at E3 - 20.5.05

Valve have been showing off their new lighting technology for Half Life 2 at E3, known as HDR or High Dynamic Range. IGN scored an interview with a Valve rep:

We talked with one of the Valve reps giving the presentation, and he said that although Lost Coast would require a pretty high-end system (3.2GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 6800GT or X800 Pro, et cetera), the Aftermath expansion pack would allow the player to disable HDR and tweak the visuals as usual. He also mentioned that HDR would be partially implemented in HL2 in a future patch, but that they probably wouldn't completely overhaul the lighting for two reasons: one, it would require a download on the order of five gigabytes; and two, they felt that there were certain sections of the game that were actually better, gameplay-wise, with the current lighting.

Also Gamespot has an interview with Valve's Doug Wood, in which he tries to give players a better understanding as just exactly what HDR will be bringing to Half Life 2.

Via hlfallout

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