[WIP] Gameplay of Half Life 2 in Unreal Engine 4

Vergil

Hey guys, I just wanted to ask for feedback regarding the shading and lighting in my hl2-to-ue4 port. I wanted it to be close to the original game's atmosphere. I've only used meshes and textures from the vanilla game. I did that for fun and learning purposes. I hope the movement in the video is not to fast, so you can see everything clear enough. Also YouTube reduced the quality of the video drastically.
Have fun watching it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ClHM4ZAyrA

FreneticPonies

Great lighting setup! What exactly are you even using for dynamic shadows here, capsule shadows, direct shadows, settings? The assets don't hold up over a decade later of course, but it's a nice job overall.

Vergil

Thank you! So the whole scene has baked lighting. Some light sources are set to stationary, like the sun. Movable objects with this nice soft dynamic shadow has " Generate Mesh Distance Field" enabled in the mesh properties. You don't have to turn on DFAO in the render settings in order for it to work. When the object is placed in the map you just have to enable "Distance Field Indirect Shadow" in the lighting settings.

Doxturtle

Nice work, its pretty amazing how updated lighting can make the game look so much newer

RustySpannerz

Yeah, from some angles it actually looks current gen