Eclipse

MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">HL2 Mod</div> I used the search function and to my surprise I couldnt find any topics on this mod...so I'll make one for it!

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Eclipse  is a third-person total conversion of Valve's Half Life 2 . You play as a young Sorceress named Violet whose father went missing five years back. After learning the secrets of Telekinesis, you are teleported into Auld-Haven, a lush and fertile land where Violet grew up. Your objective is to return to Violet's home where she last saw her father years ago and dig up any clues to his whereabouts. In the broken down tower of her home you discover a journal left by her father. The journal unlocks a handful of secrets that ultimately leads you on a quest to find the ancient teleportation device - the Standing Stones.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src='http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/eclipse/screenshots/auldhaven02.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/eclipse/screenshots/auldhaven06.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Here is there website: <a href='http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/eclipse/index.html' target='_blank'>Eclipse</a>


<a href='http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/eclipse/downloads/EclipseTrailer.wmv' target='_blank'>And here's the trailer</a>
It's got some eye candy and it's a pretty fun game, give it a try!
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  • CoolCookieCooksCoolCookieCooks Pretty Girl Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16446Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    you didnt search very well then...
  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    too bad it's really boring :/ and really, really short. Might have been interesting if they could finish it.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Whoooooooooooooo Flyyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiinnnnnnnngggggg Rooooooooocccckkksss!!
  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    I got sick of the horrible framerates and having my rocks unable to do any damage. I didn't play it long.
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    Awww man I thought I found something cool too...I'm such a loser ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Mullet+Jul 27 2005, 02:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Jul 27 2005, 02:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Awww man I thought I found something cool too...I'm such a loser ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    My rock is better than your rock.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I think the best summary of this game remains "grav gun with cleavage".
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    That's still one more selling point than HL2.
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Its very pretty... but not much in the way of fun.
  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    It's shiny, but I still won't play it.
  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    I enjoyed it for half an hour as it felt a bit like Fable.

    Then I got to a stupid underground puzzle and gave up.
  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I found it pretty damn awesome. Apart from the running animation of the girl. She looks like her legs are made entirely of rubber bands.

    --Scythe-
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    I can't install it because the installer tells me I don't have steam apparently.
  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    Did anyone else have a great deal of difficulty killing anything with the rocks? I became convinced that I wasn't supposed to fight anything yet, and went looking for somewhere else to go when the first troll thing came through the grate.
  • RatonetwothreetwooneRatonetwothreetwoone Join Date: 2004-03-23 Member: 27504Members
    it might now be so bad if my fps didnt suck.. i havent tried turning off the bloom effect yet but i doubt it would make a difference.. its probably my **** cpu bottlenecking my gpu... i dunno though..

    itd prolly still be boring... and its impossible to aim my rocks with such bad fps...
  • SvenpaSvenpa Wait, what? Join Date: 2004-01-03 Member: 25012Members, Constellation
    The underground puzzel is like like "Round the roses" so easy but you think in hard ways. The best part in the game was shooting down a wooden bridge with trolls in cages over a deep cliff.

    To solve the puzzel:



    Take each rock from the pedistals and throw em at the panel located in the water. You can just shoot everyone at the center as they will stick easily to it's right position. I solved it by randomly throwing those symbol rocks around <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Hey look, it's Guild Wars!
  • BadKarmaBadKarma The Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7 Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8260Members
    If you hold the trigger down it charges up the rocks. Kills in one go.
  • TequilaTequila Join Date: 2003-08-13 Member: 19660Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-twoflow+Jul 27 2005, 09:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (twoflow @ Jul 27 2005, 09:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I enjoyed it for half an hour as it felt a bit like Fable.

    Then I got to a stupid underground puzzle and gave up. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That was basically the end, too.

    You didn't miss much.
  • RatonetwothreetwooneRatonetwothreetwoone Join Date: 2004-03-23 Member: 27504Members
    yeah sure.. if the charging effects didnt lower my fps even more...
  • urinalcakeurinalcake Can&#39;t work a sound card United States Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7799Members
    Yeah, I saw a thread in here about Eclipse not too long ago.
    Played it.
    Too short.
    Whopdee, something new with the HL2 mod.
    Not exciting.
    For some reason, 2D art isn't really well done.

    But coming from a very, very small group of kids in a college and not full time developers with lots of experience, you really have to hand it to these guys.
  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    on the note of college kids making mods, you could go and check out <a href='http://www.samurailegends.com/' target='_blank'>Samurai Legends</a>, but apparently the beta has ended i guess it'll be released soon though. Anyway it's erh... basically a MMORPG combat mod with pretty boring skills, isn't really fun in my oppinion, but then again i played with people who had little to no clue about it :/.
  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nemesis Zero+Jul 27 2005, 02:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Jul 27 2005, 02:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think the best summary of this game remains "grav gun with cleavage". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    QFT.


    And really, really bad framerates...
  • KillymageeKillymagee Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3136Members
    Just curious, but to those who are getting lousy frame rates what are your system specs?.
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    I'm running:
    3200+
    6800 GT
    1gig DDR Ram

    I run it with everything on high and get 20-30fps....
  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-urinalcake+Jul 27 2005, 05:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (urinalcake @ Jul 27 2005, 05:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But coming from a very, very small group of kids in a college and not full time developers with lots of experience, you really have to hand it to these guys. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Nope, you really don't. That hand is reserved for the original Counter-Strike team.
  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Killymagee+Jul 27 2005, 11:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Killymagee @ Jul 27 2005, 11:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Just curious, but to those who are getting lousy frame rates what are your system specs?. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    3.2 Ghz P4
    1 gig 400Mhz ram
    Mobility Radeon 9700 128Mb

    I run HL2 at 1024x768, 2xAA 8xAF with everything maxed at a beautiful 60 FPS. I barely get 10 FPS in Eclipse with low detail at 800x600... >_<
  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    Yeah the people who made this messed something up, because it runs about as smooth as sand-paper on any machine.

    Perhaps they need some lessons in hint brush usage ;P.
  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    edited July 2005
    Sad that the first mod for hl2 is <i>fantasy.</i>

    I want my post-apocalyptic wartorn cities and zombie shooters ffs!
  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Drfuzzy+Jul 28 2005, 08:53 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Drfuzzy @ Jul 28 2005, 08:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sad that the first mod for hl2 is <i>fantasy.</i>

    I want my post-apocalyptic wartorn cities and zombie shooters ffs! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You would sorta if I actually had any skillz but NO so my ideas go un-made and the world is a sadder place for it.
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