Is it a port of PS3 version of Half-Life 2?

[ExteiD]

HL:Update looks like PS3 version of Hl2. It has same enhanced lightmaps, HDR lighting, sun ray effects, etc. Is this mod a port of PS3 version of HL2?

[um gweh]

No

[ExteiD]

It looks absolutley the same as PS3/Xbox360 version of HL2.

[schm1dt]

It 100% isn't the same, HL2 Update uses different lighting parameters to the Orange Box versions of HL2 on console, which use the original Valve maps but simply compiled with HDR enabled (since the 360 version cannot render LDR maps correctly), but without any of the lighting tweaks Filip may have also done for HL2 Update. The mod is literally what it says on the tin can, a fix/update for some of the issues with the Steam/SDK2013 version of HL2 (as of when the mod had been released, now it's a bit outdated versus the Steam version).

[ExteiD]

PS3/Xbox360 version not only use HDR. It also has the same enhanced lightmaps and sun rays as H2:update mod.

[Filip Victor]

Originally posted by ExteiD:

PS3/Xbox360 version not only use HDR. It also has the same enhanced lightmaps and sun rays as H2:update mod.

*PS3/Xbox360 HL2's does feature HDR, additional fake static rays models in a few areas (not to be confused with actual dynamic sun rays) EP2 base models added + some minor tweaks.

But in terms of hi-quality water/ reflections/ underwater effects, lightmaps tweaks for crisp shadows, nodraw texture or objects that are misaligned/ inside walls, cuts in geometry that you can see outside the map and many... many more aren't fixed. This was added/fixed manually in Update. Current PC build even more lacks of such features than console. Overall the console port It's mostly a recompile with HDR and some tweaks here and there.