jpmason33

Can see a potential Network/Security manager job becoming available there!

[Edited by jpmason33 - 10/3/2003 4:32:44 PM]

ChristianR

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better pic

http://wintermarket.org/~tesla/graphics/bob-src.jpg

[Edited by ChristianR - 10/6/2003 10:09:05 AM]

ChristianR

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http://www.halflife2.net/forums/show...threadid=10692

boxst

Hello

But it would still be difficult to compile it into a workable game?

Steve.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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No graphics

Its the "cheat" potential + loss of IP + loss of revenue through licensing other games to use the engine

Mike P

Check the article and comment thread at Eurogamer for a pretty good discussion of how much trouble this could cause Valve. A damn shame this has happened.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=53398

Neil Smalley

Just a heads up.
If you know where to find the source code, please don't post a link to it on SN. It's in the same vein as piracy and the posts will be edited/removed.

Official statement from valve

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3162074.stm

That really sucks, 5 years work down the pan. Game engine revenues often exceed that of the game itself Although I suspect it'll be used for blackmail purposes.

Thunder77

Lets hope they still get the game out in time.

AndyC_772

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I can't see any other games being released using this engine without permission - imagine the bad press for any company big enough to produce levels, graphics and sounds of its own but using the stolen engine. The resulting legal battle would be all over the geek press.

All they really have to fear, IMHO, is that any novel technology used in the engine might 'inspire' competing developers to include similar technology in their own games. I doubt there's much to worry about significant chunks of actual code being used. Of course, little functions could be used undetected.

ChristianR

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it isn't just that.

think about the ai code as well. I was amazed at how those big tall spider robots(?) were walking and interacting with the surroundings in the video. It must have taken a lot of ai to get that to work! Other developers would of have to guessed on how they did it, but now they can simply just look through the code to see how.

Tsunami

yeah my 100 post!!
Anyway im pissed off that some **** ***** up by hacking and releasing the souce code for hl2 - I hope they catch the bugger. Now means when cs is ported to the new hl2 engnine the cheaters will have a field day with the soucre code....
Also means hl2 is gonna be delayed damn ******* :<

ChristianR

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interesting read in what people have done already with the source code :

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/show...threadid=11034

and this one is very interesting post (the first one) and I highly recommend you to read it:

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/show...threadid=10894

ChristianR

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and also this site believes that the people who "stole" the code, also have the data files of the game..

http://gtwy.hl2arena.com/

ChristianR

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