FakeFactory’s Cinematic Mod Version 7

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

“The purpose of this mod is to raise the quite outdated graphical appearance to a state-of-the-art level, give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and minatory look, complement the atmosphere with a emotional cinematic music soundtrack, that fits the action on the screen, replace the low-resolution textures with high resolution counterparts and more detailed environments (hires melons!), complement the storyline with the unused content from the original games, refresh the look and feel with optional new HD models, and add more replay-value.”

Basic Details
  • Title: Fakefactory’s Cinematic Mod V7.0 for Half-Life 2, Ep1 and Ep2
  • Size : 5.01Gb
  • Author: Fake Factory
  • Date Released: 20 March 2008
VERY IMPORTANT NOTES

This mod was developed and tested on 64 Bit Windows. It is NOT supported on 32 Bit Windows, because of the limited Userspace with 32 Bit systems. You can try it on 32 Bit, but prepare for crashes.

On some 32 Bit systems it is possible to overcome this limitation with some boot.ini switches for raising the userspace limit. I’m not going into detail here, because those tweaks are dangerous and should only be done by people, who are knowing exactly, what they do.

ADDENDUM FOR VERSION 7:
Version 7 of this mod uses much more Hires textures than the previous versions. This means: The engine has to cache a peak-value of >2GB texturedata at runtime. It’s almost impossible to play this mod crash-free on 32 Bit systems without lowering the graphics settings.

PLANETPHILLIP NOTES

I downloaded, installed and ran (So far) this mod with no trouble. Load times are almost exactly the same as my normal installation, although I didn’t actually time them!

Below are some of my system details. I post them in the hope it will help readers decide if they should try it.

Computer

  • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz (2 CPUs)
  • 2046MB RAM
  • Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3, v.3264 (2600.xpsp.071130-1427)
  • Page File: 802MB used, 2630MB available

Graphics

  • DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
  • Radeon X1600/X1650 Series
  • Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0×71CD)
  • DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
  • Display Memory: 512.0 MB
  • Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
  • Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6727 (English)
DISCLAIMER

I take no responsibility if this mod crashes your HL, Ep1 or Ep2 installation or if it crashes your PC completely. If you download and install this on a PC below the recommended specification you take full responsibility for it.

Below the Official screenshots is a copy of the full readme.

Download Warning

The total files are around 5 GB, yes that’s GIGABYTES. It unpacks to around 15Gb! Don’t waste your time unless you have a fast connection and plenty of disk space.

The first 5 parts are approximately 953Mb and the sixth is 291Mb.

Download
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
    • Installation Instructions
    • Extract the Installer Folder to a location of your choice.
    • Read both the ReadMe files carefully. Seriously!
    • Run the setup.exe
    PlanetPhillip Screenshots

    Click on the thumbnails below to open a large size image.
    I took quite a few images as I started playing HL2 again. I only tested Hl2 because I just don’t have enough time to try Ep1 and Ep2. I probably could have taken more care about which ones I posted, but since you can choose exactly which images you open I left the choice to you. Images 11, 12 13, and 14 show how the sky darkens when you look at it.

    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3
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    Some Official Screenshots

    Click on the thumbnails below to open a large size image.

    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3
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    Read Me

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    FAKEFACTORY CINEMATIC MOD V7 FULL
    Build 7.0HDR (RC1)

    for Half-Life 2 / Half-Life 2: Episode One / Half-Life 2: Episode Two
    ——————————————————————————–

    TO PLAY THIS MOD, YOU MUST OWN HALF-LIFE 2 / EPISODE ONE / EPISODE TWO FULLY
    INSTALLED AND UNLOCKED!

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    Remember to activate “High Quality” graphic settings in the options dialog.
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    PURPOSE OF THIS MOD:
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    - Raise the quite outdated graphical appearance to a state-of-the-art level
    - Give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and minatory look
    - Complement the atmosphere with a emotional cinematic music soundtrack, that fits the action on the screen
    - Replace the low-resolution textures with high resolution counterparts and more detailed environments (hires melones!)
    - Complement the storyline with the unused content from the original games
    - Refresh the look and feel with optional new HD models
    - Add more replay-value

    CHANGES SINCE CM 4/5/6:
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    - The first FINAL Alyx Hires models
    - Reworked sounds and music
    - Almost all textures reworked or updated
    - Added Hires-Detail-Overlays
    - Added HDR to HL2 (See below)
    - Fixed two potential crash-bugs
    - One pack for all episodes

    HDR for HL2
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    Not all HL2 maps are true HDR, because not all sources are available. For all
    other maps i used a technique, that i call “Entity injection”. Technically i’ve
    used clientcommand entities and tonemapcontrollers to achieve a hdr-like type of
    blooming on those maps. This type of bloom is much more realistic than the old
    bloom mini-mod, because the effect is controllable inside the map for different
    settings at certain locations. You can call it HDR V0.5 or Bloom V2. Its some
    kind of super-ehanced bloom that gives a near-HDR look on the old HL2 maps.
    Some of the map-settings aren’t final (i’m still at the fine-tuning phase)

    HDR AND THE OLD VALVE MODELS:
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    With HDR enabled in HL2 some of the faces of the OLD ORIGINAL VALVE CIVILIAN
    models are appearing too bright sometimes. This little glitch will be fixed
    with the next version. The Hires models faces are looking right.

    CHARACTER PIMPER:
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    By default most of the optional HD-models are disabled. You can use the
    “Character Pimper” to switch between HD models and original VALVE models.

    The Alyx HD-model was built from scratch, all other models are based on
    massive modified POSER7 models and compiled with a rewritten studiocompiler,
    that is allowing a much higher polycount than VALVE’s original compiler. The
    facial animations were build with 3DS MAX and exported with Cannonfodders
    VTA -exporter.

    USING OLD CM6.x Alyx Hires models in this version
    ————————————————–

    The V7 Alyx models are completely reworked with enhanced skeletton and facial
    animations. The older CM6 models are not longer used. If you want the older
    models from your CM6 installation, make a copy of the CM6-Characterpimper
    “repository” folder and the CM6 “hl2\materials\models\Adriana” folder before you
    uninstall it.

    After installation of CM7 is completed, you can copy the old content to the V7
    directory, BUT DON’T OVERWRITE V7 FILES! I strongly recommend to use the new CM7
    models. They are optimized for the Orangebox engine. I will release recompiled
    V6 models as a update-patch in the near future.

    SOUND DROPS OR CRACKLING:
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    If sound crackles occures, you can fix this by setting the snd_mixahead value in
    the autoexec’s of CM’s subdirectories. You will find the autoexec.cfg in the

    FAKEFACTORY_CM\hl2\cfg
    FAKEFACTORY_CMEP1\ep1\cfg
    FAKEFACTORY_CMEP2\ep2\cfg

    directories. Try different value like snd_mixahead “0.2″ or snd_mixahead “0.4″
    for increasing the buffered time of soundsamples. This will fix crackling or
    dropouts, but can lead to slightly asynchronous or delayed sounds.

    MICROSTUTTER AND HEAPSIZE
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    If you encounter microstuttering ingame (animations), try the heapsize command.
    Add -heapsize {bytes} to the shortcuts, i.e.:

    Shortcut: Cinematic Mod EP2
    Target: ….launcher.exe” -heapsize 512000.

    But NEVER set the heapsize above [YOUR INSTALLE RAM / 3] or 512MB

    SETUP.EXE AND VIRUS-WARNING
    ————————————————–

    Setup uses a tool called SetACL for setting write permissions to the mods
    screenshots / cfg / SAVE directories. Some antivirus software could warn about
    possible malware. This is a false positive.

    TECHNICAL INFO:
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    This mod’s binaries are modified for memory allocation beyond 2 GB. To
    prevent STEAM from overwriting this binaries with its own copies on each start,
    the mod ist using a little launcher, that reroutes STEAM’s original binaries
    to >NIL.

    Start this mod only with the shortcuts in your start menu (that were
    created during installation)!

    HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

    - DX9 capable graphics hardware with minimum 256 MB VRAM. (512 MB recommended)
    - 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)

    SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

    - Fully installed STEAM Client; You can’t start the mod without STEAM running.
    - Fully installed and unlocked HL2 / EP1 / EP2; Make shure, you have started those games in the past.

    32 BIT WARNING:
    ————————————————–

    This mod was developed and tested on 64 Bit Windows. It is NOT supported on
    32 Bit Windows, because of the limited Userspace with 32 Bit systems. You
    can try it on 32 Bit, but prepare for crashes.

    On some 32 Bit systems it is possible to overcome this limitation with some
    boot.ini switches for raising the userspace limit. I’m not going into
    detail here, because those tweaks are dangerous and should only be done by
    people, who are knowing exactly, what they do.

    ADDENTUM FOR VERSION 7:

    V7 of this mod uses much more Hires textures than the previous versions. This
    means: The engine has to cache a peak-value of >2GB texturedata at runtime. It’s
    almost impossible to play this mod crash-free on 32 Bit systems without lowering
    the graphics settings.

    USED SOFTWARE FOR THIS MOD:

    Adobe Photoshop CS2
    3DS MAX 8
    E-Frontier Poser 7
    Microsoft C++ Visual Studio 2005
    Powerbasic 8
    VALVE Source SDK
    Sony Soundforge 7
    Sony Vegas 7
    Crazy Bump 5
    Cannonfodders SDK tools
    entspy
    vmex
    Autoplay Mediastudio Pro
    Setup Factory

    USED TEXTURE RESOURCES:

    Majang.com
    3d.sk
    Dosch
    environmenttextures.com
    Own photos

    USED MODEL RESOURCES:

    contentparadise.com
    efrontier.com
    daz3d.com

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    DONATIONS:

    Development of the Cinematic Mod has taken 3 years of my life, a vast amount of
    coffee and 14000+ dollars for software and resources. It will stay free for
    all, but you are welcome to donate a free amount for further development via paypal.

    If you want to donate, please click the following link. You can choose the
    amount of your donation yourself

    PayPal Donation

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    23rd March 2008 at 5:03 pm
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