Advance display settings question.

[Chris Solomon]

I have decided to take another dive into HL2 becuase of the big update. so as part of that, i was chec king my settings. i saw a setting labeled 'classic effects'.

anyone know what that setting is? or what it does?

[Taehl]

It makes the game use the particle effects from the retail version instead of the "upgrades" they got when the episodes came out. The new fire doesn't have the right color, IMHO.

[jambi]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

I have decided to take another dive into HL2 becuase of the big update. so as part of that, i was chec king my settings. i saw a setting labeled 'classic effects'.

anyone know what that setting is? or what it does?

HL2 got updated with the Episodes' effects like improved blood splatter and fire effects. It's subjective if it looks better though. When you get to some fire try turning the setting on/off to see the difference.

[SlasH]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

i saw a setting labeled 'classic effects'. anyone know what that setting is? or what it does?

It replaces the fire and blood textures with the ones from the original release. Can also be enabled using console commands r_classic_blood and r_classic_fire

[Chris Solomon]

okay, thank you