Did I find the same glitch that Brent/Kyle did in SC:CT... in HL2

[nweibley]

Brent/ Kyle found a rendering glitch in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory in their recent X850 XT PE review...
link:

I found something that looks like the same problem back in NOVEMBER of 2004 (in fact I only got 315 views and 10 replies to date) in HL2, but nobody really seemed to care/take me seriously ...
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=834838

Pics for comparison... theirs:
http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1113847052N0Ikcy6ZaX_7_10_l.jpg
Mine:

IMHO it looks like the same thing...

thoughts?

 

[gordon151]

The two are different. One is valves bad idea of how light would reflect off a shiney metal surface and one is color banding due to low precision shaders.

 

[Hate_Bot]

The two are diffrent.

Also, resizing pics would be nice

also. dont steal [H]Ard OCPs bandwidth

 

[lesman]

Yup, its low precision shaders...that answer was spot on...its the same in the xbox version,a nd worse in the PS2/gamecube versions.....looks like they didnt want to go ou of their way to program it differently (better) for the PC-lazy bastards....

 

[Shifra]

have to be pretty bored to start comparing random images in game...

 

[Brent_Justice]

They are not similar.

Also, please link to our images like this http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTExMzg0NzA1Mk4wSWtjeTZaYVhfN18xMF9sLmpwZw==

 

[Cypher19]

Nweibly, um, get some glasses. The shine in Half Life 2 is due to the suggestion that the metal has flat faces, but is generally imperfectly finished. Hit mat_normalmaps 1 in the console to see it better.

The problem in SC:CT looks like low precision (similar to the low precision issue in Far Cry: http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1088615859aso9eqaJXw_2_4_l.jpg )