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This is an enhanced version of the Valve logo seen in portal 2 (Open Your Mind 2012), the version that turns its head. Unlike the the one I made for Half-Life 2, this one has a bit more work into it. The video itself is the version that is found in the 2011 leak of DOTA 2. The file itself was in a USM format that needed to be converted as this is the highest quality version of the logo. The audio was manually recreated with the Valve theme from the Half-Life soundtack. The copyright information was recreated to match the quality. The video was converted several times: Converted from USM to m2v from m2v to mov (for the editing software) rendered into a mov then converted to bik. Quality was effected a small bit due to this, but I did the best I could to maintain it. It still looks much better than Portal 2's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: Simply download the zip file and extract it into Portal 2's directory (Where portal2.exe is located). Any updates will not override the file unless Valve decides to add new content one day. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details: No A.I was used. Everything you see and hear is all naturally occurring, even the FPS. The only manual "clean up" I did was recreate the copyright information in the video. Higher resolution: Now 1920x1080 instead of 1280x720 Higher FPS: Now 30 Instead of 24 Higher quality audio (see audio details below) Cleaner looking video Copyright information was recreated using a similar font. InkScape's "Trace Bitmap" feature was used to enhance the Source logo. Audio Details: This is where most of the work took place. I used the flac version of the Valve Theme from Half-Life's OST to manually recreate the audio heard in this version of the logo. It may sound slightly different, but that's because I worked with what I had. It took some doing, but aside from the reverb at the end since I could not get it right, I think it is nearly identical. I used the distortion sound from the audio of the USM file.

This is simply a higher quality version of Half-Life 2's valve logo (Open Your Mind from 2007). This version is from the Source SDK Base 2007 but oddly had worse audio quality, but the video was very clean. I used the same method I did for the version I made for Half-Life 1. I took the version from the SDK and mixed it with the FLAC file of the Valve theme from Half-Life's OST and manually trimmed the song to match the logo, giving the logo both higher quality video and audio. The copyright information was used from the original video located in Half-Life 2's directory, so copyright information is consistent with the original. Credits for the video and audio go to valve, I only take credit for merging these two things together. This is not the version that turns its head. Improvements compared to the original: Slightly higher FPS. Now 24.02 instead of 23.98 Somehow slightly smaller file size (again) Much cleaner looking video Higher sound quality Nothing was manually or AI enhanced. What you see and hear is naturally occurring, even the FPS. Installation: Backups do not need to be made. This uses the Source Engine's custom directory, which means nothing gets overwritten and/or gets reset after an update. Extract the zip file to <path-to-game>\hl2 launch the game, and the enhanced logo should play. This can be used for other Valve games also but if you like accuracy, the copyright information may be incorrect as this was made for Half-Life 2.

Note: This only plays on the original, non-Steam version of Half-Life (WON version). The Steam version does not have video playback on startup. It was completely removed with no way to reactivate it. For a version that works for the 25th-Anniversary update to Half-life, go here. So here is something a little different, an enhanced version of the classic Valve logo from Half-Life when it first starts up. I know most people probably just skip these, but I wanted to make this anyway. Small little personal project that I decided to make public. Improvements compared to the original: -Higher FPS: Now 30fps instead of 15fps. -Higher Bit-rate maybe?: Now ~2482Kbps, the original may have been lower but don't know the exact bit-rate. -Higher Quality Audio: I replaced the original, VERY noisy unsigned 8-bit PCM audio with signed 16-bit PCM with little endian. -Higher Sample Rate: Now 44100Hz instead of 22050Hz. -Music is now in Stereo instead of Mono. -Somehow slightly smaller file size. -Better, slightly more animated Logo: I did not do the animation, Valve did. The only negative here is that it is still 640x480 resolution, but I had to keep it at that to avoid the video from freezing part way through. The image quality suffers because of this also. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Details: Nothing was manually or AI enhanced/remastered, what you see/hear is all naturally occurring. Even the FPS. Amongst the files of the Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer, is a teaser of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (Which I think also plays at the end of Episode 1). This teaser contains a higher quality version of Valve's classic logo from Half-Life in 30fps and higher visual quality. I took that logo out of the teaser, replaced the audio with the official FLAC file of the Valve Theme from the Half-Life OST, manually trimmed and aligned the audio to match the original, converted it to the necessary codecs with FFmpeg, and here we are. I only take credit for simply mashing these two things together since both the video and audio was made by Valve. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~Installation~ Note: Make sure you backup any already existing files. If you want to see it before installing, open valve.avi with Windows Media Player. 1. Extract the zip file in <path-to-game>/valve/media. 2. Click yes if asked to replace existing files. Personal Changelog: V1.0 Initial creation. V2.0 Adjusted resolution to 640x480 to prevent the video from freezing part way through. V3.0 Resized logo to better match the original size of the original logo.

Same as this mod, but converted to WebM with separate WAV file for audio, to work with the 25th Anniversary version of the game, which restored the intro video support, this time WebM instead of AVI. Plus included Open Your Mind version of the intro alongside the original in two resolutions (720p Widescreen and 480p) The audio will remain played in it's lower quality due to the game used separate WAV file played through the Miles Sound System instead of the one from WebM itself. To fix the low quality audio, use MetaAudio with MetaHookSv, see the instructions here. Changelog: V2.0 Added 3 variants of the intro (Open Your Mind (both Portal 2/turning head and non-turning head version), and Open Your Eyes in 720p & Widescreen) V1.0 Initial creation.

This was primarily made for the Pre-25th Anniversary version of Half-Life on Steam since that version had absolutely no video playback at all. Now that the Anniversary update has come along restoring the logo video playback, it made restoring the other logos difficult since it involved replacing two files, making sure the audio is synced, having worse audio quality, and all audio files must be mixed into one file. These are scripts that basically have the videos play with FFplay (FFmpeg but as a media player) instead and then launch the specified game, this way the videos are played externally and are no longer tied to the limits of the Gold Source Engine. FFplay was chosen due to it's portability, compatibility, and it best emulates the original way the videos played in the WON versions. Windows version of FFplay is provided in this download for convenience with the license and readme files, those files only apply to ffplay.exe. I take no credit for anything except the vbs, bat, and ps1 files. Before Installing: The zip files contain VBS, BAT, and PS1 files for the sake of OS compatibility. You choose which ones to use as you do not need all of them extracted, they all do the exact same thing just in a different way. Their code can be reviewed by opening them in any text editor. BAT files are the most compatible and the fastest, use the VBS files to run the BAT without a console window (VBS and BAT files must stay together). PS1 files use Powershell and are more modern. You may need to allow your system to run the files, they are a little slower than BAT files. The version of FFplay provided will run on Windows 7 to modern Windows. Therefore, at least Windows 7 is required. Installation: Choose which zip file to download. Steam or WON. The script file names start with "LWM", this stands for "Launch With Movies". The two letters afterward represent the name of the games. "HL" = "Half-Life", "BS" = "Blue Shift", and "OF" = "Opposing Force". Steam: The scripts will launch the game using steam itself via it's Browser Protocol and not the hl.exe file directly, so any configurations and/or arguments made in steam should still work like normal as it is the equivalent as clicking the "PLAY" button in Steam. 1. Extract the "Steam Versions.zip" file into the main installation directory. This will also add the missing logo files from the WON version of the games and utilize the already existing valve.webm file. 2. Open Steam and right click on Half-Life and click "properties". Add -novid to the launch options. Do this for Blue Shift and Opposing Force Also. 3. Run the script for the game you wish to play, it must be used every time to launch the game with logo playback. WON: Since the media files are already there and play just fine in this version, this is technically not needed. But, this still eliminates the video limits of the Gold Source Engine, providing the possibility of higher quality videos. These scripts already include the -nosierra argument to prevent the videos from playing twice. If there are any other arguments you want to use, open the script files in a text editor, look for -nosierra, and add the arguments the same way you enter them in Steam, a space after each one. 1. For Half-Life and Opposing Force, extract the contents of the "Half-Life + Opposing Force" folder (not the folder itself) within the zip file into the main installation directory for Half-Life (where hl.exe is located). For Blue Shift, extract the contents of the "Blue Shift" folder (not the folder itself) within the zip file in the main installation directory for Blue Shift (where bshift.exe is located) 2. Run the script for the game you wish to play.