Half-Life/Technical information

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Technical information

The polygon models in the Dreamcast version have about twice as many polygons as the PC version. The zombies in the original PC version had 844 polygons, which was almost doubled to 1649 polygons in the Dreamcast version.[1] In the PC version, other characters had up to 1000 polygons and bosses up to 2500 polygons,[2] whereas the Dreamcast version's characters have up to 2836 polygons and bosses up to 3411 polygons.[3]

VMU features

Due to varying large VMU file sizes, a password system can be used instead to save progress.

Half-Life is able to save progress anywhere in the game, however the further along in a chapter, the larger the file can get. Alternatively the game allows progress to be saved via a password system.

Half-Life Save Data
Name File Name Comment File Size Icon
Half Life HALFLIFE.### HALF_LIFE_GAME 30-200 Half-lifeVMU.png

References

  1. ↑ "Yes, but how many polygons?" An artist blog entry with interesting numbers
  2. ↑ Acceptable polygon count for FPS characters
  3. ↑ "Yes, but how many polygons?" An artist blog entry with interesting numbers (page 79)


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