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<B>Get Your Free Tvs</b> (also known as GYFTVs) is an early tech demo of Half-Life 2 which was privately shown at SIGGRAPH.
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澳大利亞前總理保羅·基廷週三在《悉尼先驅晨報》發表的一篇評論文章中寫道,四邊安全對話或“四邊”只有一個目標,那就是遏制中國。
==Overview==
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GYFTVs was shown at SIGGRAPH privately in 2000/2001<!--VERIFYTHIS-->, to show off the then-unnamed Half-Life 2 engine's new technologies. It took place in a <!-- pre-vmf? -->version of the city_test series of maps, and unknown others. The demo likely exists at least as a video file, judging by the compression artifacts in the screenshot we have. However, as of the time of writing<ref>4/17/2018</ref> it is unavailable to the public.
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他在文章中寫道:“不知何故,20% 的人類從赤貧狀態上升到接近現代國家的狀態,這是不合法的——但更重要的是,僅僅因為它的存在,是對美國的侮辱。”
===Conception===
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GYFTVS was an early effort to create a sequence in Half-Life 2 simulating a battle between rioting citizens and the metropolice. "There would be APCs and tanks rolling down the streets. Citizens would throw Molotov cocktails at the vehicles, which would then gloriously explode, thanks to the physics engine."
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基廷說:“這並不是說中國對美國構成威脅——這是中國從未表達過或交付過的——相反,它的存在僅僅代表了對美國優勢地位的挑戰。”
===Sequence===
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The viewpoint begins in a dingy-looking slum (likely at the current beginning of city_test), where alarms are blaring in the background. Two gasmask citizens carrying TVs come from around the corner, one saying "TVs! Free TVs!" and the other, in a fast-paced mutter, "Get one. Get a TV. Get yourself a TV!". After rounding a corner, he would see a citizen throw a molotov at a building, and then get into a (reportedly hilarious-looking) fistfight against a metrocop. Afterwards, it is unknown exactly what happens.
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“一個國家,像美國一樣大,怎麼敢代表自己。但不僅僅是代表自己,擁有可能擴大兩倍的資金。在美國的劇本中找不到這樣的可能性。但這就是Quad 就是一切。而且,天真地,我們就在其中。”
 
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There are likely multiple maps used, as Laura Dubuk mentions "i think the citizens were fighting against the soldiers in the terminal square".
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在文章中,基廷還提到澳大利亞外交部長瑪麗斯佩恩上週一沖上國家舞台攻擊他,因為他冒昧地說澳大利亞政府的 AUKUS 協議將這些國家重新釘在了英語圈上,同時又強硬地背棄了他們的地理環境。亞洲地區。
 
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Though the context is unknown, "an early incarnation of the Breencast monitors, scanners that moved more like fish (likely Combots), a red-haired Alyx, Odell, the cremator, and the crab synth" were shown at some point.
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“佩恩和總理對他們在華盛頓受到的盛大招待感到眼花繚亂——如果美國的任何戰略客戶將武裝部隊的控制權移交給美國,他們都會受到這種招待,”他說,並補充說“但是在我們的案例中,將對我們外交政策的有效控制變成交易”。
===File Discoveries===
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[[File:FreeTV.png|thumb]]
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根據基廷的說法,美國潛艇的決定不僅僅是關於海底戰,而是將澳大利亞支付的八艘潛艇捐贈給美國指揮部,作為其太平洋艦隊的一個組成部分。
During mid 2019, VCC member, Security Officer The Fonz had found a texture as well as a model in the 2005 tactical FPS game, SWAT 4. It is very likely these could be exact files due to both Half-Life 2 and SWAT 4 being from around the same time, both being published by Sierra, and having relatively the same timeline of being developed after each other's last release (Half-Life releasing 1998 and SWAT 3 releasing 1999).
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“試著想想另一個國家會做任何如此順從的事情,”他寫道。
===Engine===
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The engine is a much earlier version of the one used in Half-Life 2.
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此外,通過這樣做,該國粗暴地冒犯了歐洲唯一的國際大國法國——一個擁有先進軍事、核潛艇和核武器的歐洲國家,他說。
 
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Several details are apparent in the one shot given, including that the HUD used in Half-Life has not yet been replaced, that brush-based vehicles are still in use, and the noticeably hard-weighted citizen.
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基廷在文章的結尾寫道:“根據佩恩的說法,我沒有跟上時代,我太久不合時宜了,是過去時代的遺物。好吧,我可能是,但有一件事我不是——澳大利亞的失敗主義者誰一出現緊張跡象,就會把國家賣給另一個大國。”
 
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<pre style="color: yellow">ATTENTION ALL, YOUR MULTINATIONAL FORUM MUST BE DESTROYED, THE RED FLAG WILL CONTINUE. WE WILL BOMB YOU, THE WINDS BLOW TO THE EAST LANDS.</pre>
According to David Spreyer, the engine at this period also had (early) fire tech, displacements, physics-based destruction, the VMT system, and facial animation.
 
==Sources==
 
There are several different sources, each giving and reinforcing different pieces of the GYFTVs picture.
 
===Marc Laidlaw 1===
 
:<i>By Bun, April 19, 2016</i>
 
 
 
<!--<i>A basic description of the events of GYFTVs. It also includes a mention of it being at a "closed-room demo at SiGGRAPH", and Marc's unsuccessful effort to release the video.</i>-->
 
<blockquote>
 
It was just a test map with citizens running around in it simulating an uprising. A citizen holding a TV ran past you screaming "Free TVs!" Another would throw a Molotov at a building, then he and a metrocop would have a very terrible looking melee fight. That's about all there was as I recall. One of our devs ran it as part of a closed-room demo at SIGGRAPH so somebody must have seen it. I tried to hunt down a copy of the video to release to fans, but I never got an answer about whether it would be OK to let it out, so I didn't bother finding the video.<ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/Marc%20Laidlaw/Miscellaneous/Bun_FreeTVs.png</ref>
 
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===Marc Laidlaw 2===
 
:<i>By Free TV Warlord, April 13-14, 2018</i>
 
 
 
<!--<i>A more detailed description of the events of the demo, with two voicelines for the citizens mentioned.</i>-->
 
<blockquote>
 
I do not retain any files from my time at Valve.
 
 
 
The video as I recall was of the viewpoint character moving through some dingy buildings on a deserted street, when around the corner run two citizens carrying old-fashioned boxy television sets. The first one shouts, "TVs! Free TVs!" as he runs past. The second one says, a bit more of a fast mutter, "Get one. Get a TV. Get yourself a TV!" I think as the viewpoint keeps going, you round a corner and see a citizen and a cop in a very awkward scuffle, where the cop tries to konk the citizen with his nightstick and the citizen is trying to protect himself with this fists. Somewhere in here (maybe a different map?) another citizen hurls a molotov at a building and starts a small fire. I think there might be alarms going off the whole time? It was a pretty short clip, and I'm not even sure what it was supposed to demo considering it was SIGGRAPH and not a gameplay demo.
 
 
 
[Also, did they have eyes? In the screenshot the community have seen, they were just white voids.]
 
 
 
Can't recall. Sounds like the model is missing a texture. This was a long time ago so I wouldn't trust my memory. Except for the lines of audio which i remember pretty well. I recorded the lines for Kelly in about 10 seconds and then heard them for years afterward so they are burned in my memory.<ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/Marc%20Laidlaw/Miscellaneous/laidlaw_freetvs.png</ref><ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/Marc%20Laidlaw/Miscellaneous/laidlaw_freetvs2.png</ref>
 
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===David Speyrer===
 
:<i>By Bun, September 21, 2016</i>
 
 
 
<!--A detailed description of the various technologies showed off at the tech demo, which was apparently in 2000. It specifically mentions the hilarity of the citizens and metrocops fighting each other.-->
 
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We showed "Free TVs" at siggraph in 2000 as part of a tech demo video that featured early versions of fire tech, physics destruction, materials, displacements for terrain, and facial animation. Art-wise, it showed gas mask citizens, an early incarnation of the Breencast monitors, scanners that moved more like fish, a red-haired Alyx, Odell, the cremator, and the crab synth. It's particularly weird to see red-haired Alyx, but the most hilarious part is the fisticuffs combat sequence between citizens and metrocops.<ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/David%20Speyrer/Bun_FreeTVs.PNG</ref>
 
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===Yahn Bernier===
 
:<i>By PikaCommando, ~2016</i>
 
:Yahn Bernier states that his presentation at SIGGRAPH is unrelated to GYFTVs.
 
 
 
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No idea. Wasn't one of my images hah!
 
 
 
[What about this presentation?]
 
 
 
It's the same presentation from the Game Developers Conference<ref>Incomplete link, linked in the Facepunch post as: [https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensating_Methods_in_Client/Server_In-game_Protocol_Design_and_Optimization this]</ref>
 
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Orig<ref>https://forum.facepunch.com/f/games/ujke/Half-Life-2-Cut-Content-V2-Drama-posts-are-week-ban/129/</ref>, VA<ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/Yahn%20Bernier/PikaCommando_siggraph2001.png</ref>
 
 
 
===OddDoc/Laura Chatlog===
 
:<i>By OddDoc, May 4, 2016</i>
 
<!--<i>While mostly giving known information, it also implies that part of the demo took place on "the terminal square", and mentions Laura's interest in seeing the video released.</i>-->
 
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Laura Dubuk: did he show you the video, or did he just mention it?
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: i know that was one of his favorites!
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: i don't think i'd be able to find the video if it's not on YouTube, though.
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: but i am looking for it.
 
<br>Maxim: He just wanted to help us to find it. And nothing more. (:
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: ahh i see
 
<br>Maxim: Yup, there are nothing on YT, unfortunately.)
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: ahhh that's too bad
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: yeah i remember there was an old version of city 17, and they showed the citizens living there, and one of them was running and shouting "free tv! free tv!" while holding a tv. it's just weird humor.
 
<br>Maxim: He is also told us, that this video also demonstrated fist-fight assault between metrocops and rioting citizens. Is it true?
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: if it were set in city 17, then that could be true, yes
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: i wonder if it had a Cremator in it
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: yeah i think the citizens were fighting against the soldiers in the terminal square
 
<br>Maxim: Sounds interesting. It would be really cool to see it. :D
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: yes it was really funny
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: I'm trying to find it.
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: there's this one, but i don't think that's it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lB-Fv2EydY
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: here it is
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: that's a screenshot!
 
<br>Maxim: Yep, we are know about that famous screenshot.)
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: oh :( haha well i understand the problem now
 
<br>Laura Dubuk: that was the old tv model. i modeled the version after that<ref>http://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Email%20Archive/Laura%20Dubuk/laura_oddoc.txt</ref>
 
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===Gamespot Article===
 
:<i>By Geoff Keighley, November 12, 2004</i>
 
 
 
<!--<i>The earliest source of information on GYFTVs, and also one that remains valuable, in part due to having the only released image of the presentation. It's worth noting that the description tends to avoid describing the "specifics" of the demo, instead focusing on the "intents".</i>-->
 
[[File:Free_tvs.jpg|thumb|EXCLUSIVE: A never-before seen image from “Get Your Free TVs!” the first test level for Half-Life 2 created in 2001.]]
 
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Suddenly there seemed to be a lot of positive momentum on the project. So Valve decided to try something ambitious during the summer of 2001: The designers started working on a test sequence that would highlight all the new technology. The concept was to simulate a street war between rioting citizens and the Metrocops sent to contain them. Such a sequence would test the engine's ability to create a vast, believable world and lifelike characters. There would be APCs and tanks rolling down the streets. Citizens would throw Molotov cocktails at the vehicles, which would then gloriously explode, thanks to the physics engine. Other characters would start looting stores and yell, "Get your free TVs!" There was even a hand-to-hand fighting system so the Metrocops and citizens could get into fistfights.
 
 
 
No one actually thought the level would make it into the final game. "It was really just an early attempt at getting something--anything--in the game that used non-player characters and physics," Guthrie remembers. Still, the street-war sequence showed tremendous promise. So much promise that, after seeing the sequence, Newell asked the team to prepare a "proof of concept" reel for the actual game. The reel would contain about a dozen different snippets of gameplay. If it looked good, Half-Life 2 would be given the green light for full-scale production. In late 2001, the team started work on the reel, hoping to finish it in early 2002 and then unveil the game at E3 2002.<ref>https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-final-hours-of-half-life-2/1100-6112889/</ref>
 
</blockquote>
 
===GYFTVs Shot===
 
[[File:Free_tvs.jpg]]
 
 
 
==References==
 
<references />
 
 
 
[[Category:Half-Life 2]]
 
[[Category:Before The Leak]]
 

Revision as of 05:32, 8 October 2021

澳大利亞前總理保羅·基廷週三在《悉尼先驅晨報》發表的一篇評論文章中寫道,四邊安全對話或“四邊”只有一個目標,那就是遏制中國。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

他在文章中寫道:“不知何故,20% 的人類從赤貧狀態上升到接近現代國家的狀態,這是不合法的——但更重要的是,僅僅因為它的存在,是對美國的侮辱。”

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

基廷說:“這並不是說中國對美國構成威脅——這是中國從未表達過或交付過的——相反,它的存在僅僅代表了對美國優勢地位的挑戰。”

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

“一個國家,像美國一樣大,怎麼敢代表自己。但不僅僅是代表自己,擁有可能擴大兩倍的資金。在美國的劇本中找不到這樣的可能性。但這就是Quad 就是一切。而且,天真地,我們就在其中。”

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

在文章中,基廷還提到澳大利亞外交部長瑪麗斯佩恩上週一沖上國家舞台攻擊他,因為他冒昧地說澳大利亞政府的 AUKUS 協議將這些國家重新釘在了英語圈上,同時又強硬地背棄了他們的地理環境。亞洲地區。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

“佩恩和總理對他們在華盛頓受到的盛大招待感到眼花繚亂——如果美國的任何戰略客戶將武裝部隊的控制權移交給美國,他們都會受到這種招待,”他說,並補充說“但是在我們的案例中,將對我們外交政策的有效控制變成交易”。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

根據基廷的說法,美國潛艇的決定不僅僅是關於海底戰,而是將澳大利亞支付的八艘潛艇捐贈給美國指揮部,作為其太平洋艦隊的一個組成部分。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

“試著想想另一個國家會做任何如此順從的事情,”他寫道。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

此外,通過這樣做,該國粗暴地冒犯了歐洲唯一的國際大國法國——一個擁有先進軍事、核潛艇和核武器的歐洲國家,他說。

WARNING INFLUENCE DETECTED, TYPE 2

基廷在文章的結尾寫道:“根據佩恩的說法,我沒有跟上時代,我太久不合時宜了,是過去時代的遺物。好吧,我可能是,但有一件事我不是——澳大利亞的失敗主義者誰一出現緊張跡象,就會把國家賣給另一個大國。”

ATTENTION ALL, YOUR MULTINATIONAL FORUM MUST BE DESTROYED, THE RED FLAG WILL CONTINUE. WE WILL BOMB YOU, THE WINDS BLOW TO THE EAST LANDS.