"Use High Quality Models" toggle in Multiplayer options?

[dardar101]

What the heck does this do? I'm fully aware of the HD pack added with blue shift that you can toggle in the video settings, but this seems to have nothing to do with that as far as I can tell? Literally nothing on the internet explains this, all searches just result in stuff about the HD pack.

[PsyWarVeteran]

It has nothing to do with the HD pack.

There are seperate multiplayer models, HD one has more polygons and looks better, LD ones are more simple. It was added to reduce fps drops by the developers for a smooth multiplayer experience. Of course that was for 1998 computers, now it is not an issue.

[dardar101]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

It has nothing to do with the HD pack.

There are seperate multiplayer models, HD one has more polygons and looks better, LD ones are more simple. It was added to reduce fps drops by the developers for a smooth multiplayer experience. Of course that was for 1998 computers, now it is not an issue.

So you're saying there's two versions of the non-hd pack multiplayer models? Does that mean there's 3 versions of each multiplayer model (non-hd low quality, non-hd high quality, and hd), or 4 (are there two versions for hd pack models too)? And I assume you're specifically saying that the models it changes are specifically the player models in multiplayer only?

[dardar101]

Originally posted by dardar101:

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

It has nothing to do with the HD pack.

There are seperate multiplayer models, HD one has more polygons and looks better, LD ones are more simple. It was added to reduce fps drops by the developers for a smooth multiplayer experience. Of course that was for 1998 computers, now it is not an issue.

So you're saying there's two versions of the non-hd pack multiplayer models? Does that mean there's 3 versions of each multiplayer model (non-hd low quality, non-hd high quality, and hd), or 4 (are there two versions for hd pack models too)? And I assume you're specifically saying that the models it changes are specifically the player models in multiplayer only?

Also, (and this is just me being curious) where are all the different model versions located in the files (if you know)? With my extremely limited knowledge of Half-Life's files, I can only seem to find 1 version of each player model...

[cambreaKer]

Originally posted by dardar101:

Originally posted by dardar101:

So you're saying there's two versions of the non-hd pack multiplayer models? Does that mean there's 3 versions of each multiplayer model (non-hd low quality, non-hd high quality, and hd), or 4 (are there two versions for hd pack models too)? And I assume you're specifically saying that the models it changes are specifically the player models in multiplayer only?

Also, (and this is just me being curious) where are all the different model versions located in the files (if you know)? With my extremely limited knowledge of Half-Life's files, I can only seem to find 1 version of each player model...

they're stored in the playermodels as submodels

[dardar101]

Ok, so there are hi-res and low-res versions of each multiplayer player model (both built into a single model file as submodels) that can be toggled between with the check box in the multiplayer settings (which is completely separate from the Blue Shift HD Pack in the video settings that changes all the weapons and singleplayer NPC models). But I'm still confused about one thing: if there's two versions of the default multiplayer player models, does that mean that the Blue Shift HD Pack doesn't affect the multiplayer player models at all? Or is there yet another version of the multiplayer player models for if you have the HD Pack enabled?

[cambreaKer]

the hd pack does not include player models

[Yzal]

Here you can see the difference
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(multiplayer)#Half-Life_5

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

Here you can see the difference
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/Half-Life_(multiplayer)#Half-Life_5

The low quality models are like they came from Quake.